Today in 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time.
She was arrested, and later fined $100. And now, half of us do not even bother to vote.
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Today in 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time.
She was arrested, and later fined $100. And now, half of us do not even bother to vote.
Of currently existing independent countries, New Zealand was the first to acknowledge women's right to vote in 1893 .
The self-governing British colony of South Australia enacted universal suffrage and, furthermore, enabled women to stand for the colonial parliament in 1894. The Australian Federal Parliament extended voting rights to all adult women for Federal elections from 1902 (with the exception of Aboriginal women in some states).
The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland. Following the 1905 uprising, Finnish women's demand for both the right to vote (universal and equal suffrage) and the right to stand for election were met in 1906. The world's first female members of parliament were also Finnish, as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections.
Norway (1913)
Denmark (1915)
Canada, Soviet Russia, Germany, and Poland
British women over 30 had the vote in 1918,
Dutch women in 1919,
American women won the vote August 26, 1920 Women in Turkey won voting rights in 1926.
One of the most recent jurisdictions to acknowledge women's full right to vote was Bhutan in 2008 (its first national elections).
...and thus the world was doomed to political ineptitude....