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Suffragettes?

England allowed women to vote in 1918...
are there any countries you can name that allowed women to have the vote before this time, and later than this time...
r there any countries right now that will not allow women to vote?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There may be some States in the Union [USA] who gave women the vote earlier than 1918.

Try this American site : -
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime...

Following is a list of countries and year when women got the vote. UK lagged behind.

1893 New Zealand
1902 Australia1
1906 Finland
1913 Norway
1915 Denmark
1917 Canada2
1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia
1919 Netherlands
1920 United States
1921 Sweden
1928 Britain, Ireland
1931 Spain
1944 France
1945 Italy
1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan
1949 China
1950 India
1954 Colombia
1957 Malaysia, Zimbabwe
1962 Algeria
1963 Iran, Morocco
1964 Libya
1967 Ecuador
1971 Switzerland
1972 Bangladesh
1974 Jordan
1976 Portugal
1989 Namibia
1990 Western Samoa
1993 Kazakhstan, Moldova
1994 South Africa
2005 Kuwait