Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Celebrate your responsibility - Exercise your right to vote.
During World War I and World War II, women filled what had traditionally been male jobs in factories and offices. After WWl, the rationale that those same women now standing in for their male counterparts (once considered mentally and physically inferior to them) proved illogical and laid the foundation for many countries to grant females the right to vote.
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1893 | NEW ZEALAND
1917 | RUSSIA
1920 | USA
1928 | UNITED KINGDOM
1931 | SPAIN
1945 | ITALY
1949 | CHINA
1950 | INDIA
History of Gender Equality IN VOTING
Some countries took much longer:
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1971 | SWITZERLAND
1976 | Portugal
1992 | TAIWAN
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Other countries have marked differences regarding when voting rights were granted to ALL women despite race, religion or tribe :
1945 | TOGO
1946 | CAMEROON & LIBERIA
1959 | TANZANIA & TUNISIA
1960 | CANADA
1961 | SIERRA LEONE & RWANDA
1962 | AUSTRALIA
1994 | SOUTH AFRICA
2015 | SAUDI ARABIA
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