Which was the first country to give women the vote?

Answer 1

In 1866 the Isle of Man became the first national parliament to grant equal voting rights to men and women, based on property ownership, followed in 1869 by Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity wherein equal suffrage was extended to women. That same year, the legislature in the Utah Territory passed an act giving women in Utah the right to vote. This right was later revoked by the US congress in the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887.

Timeline
1832 – Suffrage Reform Act - women expressly forbidden from voting
1865 – John Stuart Mill elected as an MP showing direct support for women’s suffrage
1867 – Reform Act - Male franchise extended
1869 – The first Territorial legislature of Wyoming grants woman suffrage
1869 – The Utah Territory grants woman suffrage
1882 – Married Women's Property Act passed, allowing women to own property on their own terms
1883 – Conservative Primrose League formed
1886 – Suffrage Reform Act - More working class men enfranchised
1887 – The US Congress disenfranchises Utah women via the Edmunds-Tucker Act
1893 – Independent Labour Party formed
1894 – Local Government Act (women could vote in local elections, become Poor Law Guardians, act on School Boards)
1895 – Women's Suffrage reinstated in Utah by state constitution
1897 – NUWSS formed (led by Millicent Fawcett)
October 1903 – First meeting of WSPU (led by Emmeline Pankhurst)
1905 – Militancy began (Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a Liberal Party meeting and spat at a policeman)
February 1907 – NUWSS “Mud March” – largest open air demonstration ever held (at that point)
1908 – Herbert Asquith became Prime Minister (personally opposed to votes for women)
1907, 1912, 1914 – major splits in WSPU
1905, 1908, 1913 – 3 phases of WSPU militancy (Civil Disobedience – Destruction of Public Property – Arson/Bombings)
July 5, 1909 – Marion Wallace Dunlop went on the first hunger strike – was released after 91 hours of fasting
September 1909 – Force Feeding introduced in prisons
1910 – Lady Constance Lytton disguised herself as a working class criminal, Jane Wharton, and was arrested and endured force feeding to prove prejudice in prisons against working class women. Lady Lytton was instrumental in reforming conditions in prisons. The force feeding shortened her life considerably
February 1910 – Cross-Party Conciliation Committee (54 MPs). Conciliation Bill (that would enfranchise women) passed its 2nd reading by a majority of 109 but Asquith refused to give it more parliamentary time
November 1910 – Asquith changed Bill to enfranchise more men instead of women
November 18, 1910 – Black Friday
February 1913 – David Lloyd George’s house burned down by WSPU (had previously supported the movement – after this he publicly opposed it)
April 1913 – Cat and Mouse Act passed, allowing hunger-striking prisoners to be released when their health was threatened and then re-arrested when they had recovered
June 4, 1913 – Emily Davison threw herself under the King’s Horse at the Epsom Derby
March 13, 1914 – Mary Richardson slashed the Velasquez in the National Gallery with an axe, protesting that she was maiming a beautiful woman just as the government was maiming Emmeline Pankhurst with force feeding
August 4, 1914 – First World War declared in Britain. WSPU activity immediately ceased. NUWSS activity continued peacefully - The Birmingham branch of the organisation continued to lobby Parliament and write letters to MPs.
1918 – The Representation of the People Act of 1918 enfranchised all women over the age of 30. This was probably so that women would not outnumber men in the voting process
1928 – Women received the vote on equal terms as men (over the age of 21)

Answer 2

United States

Answer 3

Yup, the first country was New Zealand. The first state was Wyoming in 1869 but of course it took 51 more years for our whole country to allow women's suffrage.

Answer 4

According to Wikipedia:

In 1866 the Isle of Man became the first national parliament to grant equal voting rights to men and women, based on property ownership, followed in 1869 by Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity wherein equal suffrage was extended to women. That same year, the legislature in the Utah Territory passed an act giving women in Utah the right to vote. This right was later revoked by the US congress in the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887.

The small British colony of the Pitcairn Islands, (2006 population: 50) extended suffrage to women in 1838. In 1893, New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage, following a movement led by Kate Sheppard. Women first achieved the right to stand for public office in South Australia in 1894, along with suffrage in that state.


So, it was New Zeland (1893), although Wyoming Territory in the US allowed women to vote in 1867, but it was revoked in 1887.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

New Zealand was the first country.

Answer 7

New Zealand in 1893.

Answer 8

Switzerland

Answer 9

New Zealand

Answer 10

IRAQ