Women's suffrage
suffragettes, was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (i.e. the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather then universal suffrage (abolition of discrimination due to, for instance, race), which was considered too radical. A catch phrase was "one man, one vote!"
In 1869 the Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women. The earliest country extending that right was Pitcairn Islands in 1838. In 1893, New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage.
Timeline
Women's suffrage has been granted (and been revoked) at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women (and men) from certain races were still unable to vote.
The table below lists years when women's suffrage was enacted in various places. In many cases the first voting took place in a subsequent year.
Countries without women's suffrage
Some countries do not extend suffrage to women, or extend it differently from that extended to men (this list does not include countries where neither men nor women have suffrage):
- Bhutan -- One vote per family in village-level elections
- Kuwait -- Female suffrage at the municipal level only.
- Lebanon -- Proof of education required for women, not required for men. Voting compulsory for men, optional for women.
- Vatican City -- Voting restricted to all-male College of Cardinals.
- Oman -- limited to 175,000 people chosen by the government, mostly male
Suffragists and suffragettes
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