Women’s Suffrage Achieved

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The following table displays a list of countries alongside the year in which its women were granted suffrage.

 

Country	Year
New Zealand	1893
Australia	1902
Finland	1906
Norway	1913
Denmark	1915
Iceland	1915
Canada (partial)	1916
USSR	1917
Netherlands	1917
Austria	1918
Czechoslovakia	1918
Poland	1918
Sweden	1918
Germany	1919
Luxembourg	1919
United States	1920
United Kingdom	1928
Ecuador	1929
Spain	1931
Thailand	1932
Brazil	1932
Ceylon	1934
Cuba	1934
Turkey	1934
Uruguay	1934
Burma	1935
Philippines	1937
El Salvador	1939
Canada (Quebec)	1940
Dominican Republic	1942
France	1944
Guatemala	1945
Japan	1945
Argentina	1946
Belgium	1946
Italy	1946
Mexico	1946
Romania	1946
Yugoslavia	1946
China	1947
Liberia	1947
India	1950*
Indonesia	1955
Uganda	1958
Nigeria	1960
Switzerland	1971
Liechtenstein	1984

* Women achieved suffrage in independent India in 1950; however, during the British raj period in India, women had achieved suffrage through the Government of India Act of 1935.

 

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LESSON PLAN	Women's Suffrage for Grades 3-5 Students read background materials on the fight for women's suffrage and its eventual success in the United States and around the world.
UNIT PLAN	Women's Suffrage Students read about the suffrage movement , research and answer dicussion questions, and write essays.
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