Click for full size. Map created by Cuba Holidays.
The map above shows when women got the right to vote in each country around the world.
2018 marks the centenary of Women’s suffrage in the UK and even then only with several restrictions (had to be over the age of 30 and meet property qualifications).
You can read much more (with links) at Brilliant Maps: Women’s Suffrage Mapped: The Year Women Got The Vote By Country.
Go New Zealand, I guess??
From this, I conclude that politicians are much shittier people than we are generally led to believe.
IIRC some regional political entities were even earlier than NZ, but they don’t count because they still aren’t independent today.
Finland was the first currently-independent state to grant women both voting and political office rights (1906, effective 1907). These details may cause some misunderstandings if you discuss this issue with Finns.
That is extraordinarily sad.
Raucous Indignation #4
Agreed.
For fucking sure.
In the US 1964-65 for black women.