I figured I'd make a thread about some countries and the right to vote for women. I found some of these facts amazing when I first found them out a few years back. Here's wikipedia's timeline of when women achieved voting rights in various countries.
Probably the craziest fact on that list is that Switzerland didn't have voting rights for women on the federal level until 1971, and the last canton of Switzerland didn't allow women to vote locally until 1991 when the Swiss Federal Supreme Court forced them to allow it. So a huge list of countries including Iran, Uganda, and Papua New Guinea were way ahead of Switzerland in terms of women's suffrage. :areyoucra
Liechtenstein didn't allow women to vote until 1984, where it was the last European country to allow it. Only men were allowed to vote on the matter, there was high voter turnout, and the measure narrowly passed to allow women to vote.
And of course on that timeline, many middle eastern countries have only recently allowed voting rights for women in the last decade or two, and some still haven't.
Probably the craziest fact on that list is that Switzerland didn't have voting rights for women on the federal level until 1971, and the last canton of Switzerland didn't allow women to vote locally until 1991 when the Swiss Federal Supreme Court forced them to allow it. So a huge list of countries including Iran, Uganda, and Papua New Guinea were way ahead of Switzerland in terms of women's suffrage. :areyoucra
Liechtenstein didn't allow women to vote until 1984, where it was the last European country to allow it. Only men were allowed to vote on the matter, there was high voter turnout, and the measure narrowly passed to allow women to vote.
And of course on that timeline, many middle eastern countries have only recently allowed voting rights for women in the last decade or two, and some still haven't.