what year did woman first have the right to vote?

Answer 1

1917 for CISNFM

Answer 2

1917

Answer 3

1920

Answer 4

classic example of misunderstanding the difference between 'rights' and 'freedoms' . Women have always had the right (the suffrage movement would've been meaningless w/o such foundational truth) Women Suffrage was about obtaining the FREEDOM to exercise the RIGHT to vote.

Answer 5

1917 was the year and the correct trivia answer Yeehaw!

Answer 6

in 1920 the 19th Amendment (1920): no law may restrict any sex from voting in the U.S. was passed.

Answer 7

1917....works for radio trivia.

Answer 8

The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The suffrage movement was led by Suffragists; this was a term usually given to those who sought to create change constitutionally. The term Suffragettes is applied to those within the movement for suffrage that used militant actions and approaches in an attempt to gain female suffrage. The early suffrage movement advocated female suffrage although it was recognised that these rights would apply only to married women. The move for the abolition of all discrimination, for example, against race or class, was seen to develop with the more radical and militant wings of this female movement.

Women's suffrage has been granted (and been revoked) at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women (and men) from certain races and social classes were still unable to vote. The first women's suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men, although, since married women did not own property in their own right, only unmarried women and widows qualified) was granted in New Jersey by the state constitution of 1776 where the word "inhabitants" was used without qualification of sex or race. New Jersey women, along with "aliens...persons of color, or negroes", lost the vote in 1807, when the franchise was restricted to white males, partly in order, ostensibly at least, to combat electoral fraud by simplifying the conditions for eligibility.

The Pitcairn Islands granted women's suffrage in 1838. Various countries and states granted restricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with South Australia in 1861. The 1871 Paris Commune granted voting rights to women, but they were taken away with the fall of the Commune and would only be granted again in July 1944 by Charles de Gaulle.

The first unrestricted women's suffrage in terms of voting rights (women were not initially permitted to stand for election) in a self-governing country was granted in New Zealand. Following a movement led by Kate Sheppard, the women's suffrage bill was adopted mere weeks before the general election of 1893.

The first to grant universal suffrage and allow women to stand for parliament was South Australia, in 1894. The Commonwealth of Australia provided this for women in Federal elections from 1902 (except Aboriginal women). The first major European country to introduce women's suffrage was Finland, where women were granted the right both to vote (universal and equal suffrage) and to stand for election in 1905. The world's first female members of parliament were also in Finland, when on 23 May 1906, 19 women took up their places in the Parliament of Finland as a result of the 1905 parliamentary elections. In 1886 the small island kingdom of Tavolara became a republic and was the first country to introduce universal suffrage in its presidential elections.[1] However, in 1895 the monarchy was reinstated, and the kingdom was subsequently annexed by Italy.

In the years before the First World War, Norway (1913) and Denmark also gave women the vote, and it was extended throughout the remaining Australian states. Canada granted the right in 1917 (except in Quebec, where it was postponed until 1940), as did the Soviet Union. British women over 30 and all German and Polish women had the vote in 1918, and American women in states that had previously denied them suffrage were allowed the vote in 1920. Women in Turkey were granted voting rights in 1926. In 1928, suffrage was extended to all British women. One of the last jurisdictions to grant women equal voting rights was Liechtenstein in 1984. Since then only a handful of countries have not extended the franchise to women, usually on the basis of certain religious interpretations. Bhutan allows one vote per property, a policy that many claim in practice prevents women from voting (although it is planned to be changed once the newly proposed constitution is accepted before 2008