When did women get the right to vote in Europe – Switzerland only in 1971
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When did women get the right to vote in Europe – Switzerland only in 1971
Posted by All_TheToeCheese
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Greece wasn’t a democracy beforehand
Fun fact. The right for women to vote in Finland actually predates Finland’s independence, by more than a decade.
In some regional elections only in the 1990s.
In Italy women got the right to vote in administrative elections in 1925, but in the same year the fascists removed the elections of mayors. The first time they voted was in [1946](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Italian_local_elections).
switzerland really lagged behind despite being all about neutrality
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Hitler giving women the right to vote in France is wild
Man walked on the moon before a woman voted in Switzerland.
To be fair, that doesn’t apply for all Switzerland. But it gives you a good idea how this country is handling “new” ideas such a paid leave for fathers, affordable children daycare, or after-school services. Actually anything that would emancipate the women and free them from being mere housewives.
Hides Liechtenstein’s 1984
1944 ? Thanks, Hitler, I guess
*For the first time.
I see a correlation with the biggest catastrophes of the 20th century
I believe it was only one Canton of Switzerland which had not granted women the vote before 1971.
Apparently the only way is to have a war.
In other words, Calvinism and Roman Catholicism (Switzerland) lags 40 years behind Shiah Islam (Turkey).
Meh… kinda both expected and still surprising it took so long.
I really love the colours lmao, the earlier they got the right, the worse.
I’m sure those women in Spain enjoyed their right to vote for years to come!!!
Ataturk was really ahead of time.
Oh, by the way. There was active push for some sort of voting rights in Ottoman Empire in late 1800s and 1900s. In Sharia-Muslim Ottoman Empire. It didn’t succeed unfortunately but it helped the way forward for Republic.
Vatican? 🤔
In Belgium, the first women voted in the 1919 elections. Only war widows got to vote, though, instead of their fallen husband. In 1948, all women got to vote.
SOME women were granted the vote in the UK in 1918, yes, but it was heavily restricted. The War of Independence began the next year and the new Irish Free State granted women equal suffrage with men.
*Not all women (of the same age as men who could vote) were able to vote in the UK until 1928.
And the dictators Russians were theones of the earliest to allow voting to women.
You’d think the color scheme here would be reversed
Wake up! It’s the 21st Century, Vatican City! /s
I’m noticing a lot of the eastern europe ones are just the years when the country was founded and just everyone got the right to vote
Hungary is misleading here like the US before the voting rights act. Noble and rich women the horthy regime allowed to vote could vote so the real date is 1945 and then for the whole nation.
Trump would salivate at horthy era voting one noble votes counted as ten votes and if people , white people mind you, still dared to show up the gendarmerie beat them up.
Afaik in Hungary women got the right to vote before census was abolished which happened after WW2
Didn’t women in Turkey get the right to vote in 1922?
That was what we were taught in school.
Ataturk even adopted a girl who later became a pilot( military, I don’t remember), usually interpreted as him symbolically supporting women rights.
You can’t read it here but Liechtenstein is 1984. So let’s all take a breath when Euros on Reddit break their arms patting themselves on the back for being so forward thinking
In many of those countries it is also when men got the right to vote
italy is wrong
Guess what happened in 1917
I am so over this narrative….Voting is a modern concept, women had significant way of power before democracy.
In Europe, long before the rise of modern representative democracies and universal female suffrage, women exercised significant—and sometimes absolute—political, social, and economic power.
Before the democratic era, European political power was based on heredity, nobility, religion, and property, rather than individual ballots. Because the vast majority of men could not vote either, class and status were far more critical than gender when it came to political influence.
New Zealand- 1893
It should have stated diference in voting rights.
1984 in neighbouring Liechtenstein.
You read that right… 1971!
Maps like these are never that accurate, because a vote per head systems weren’t really universally used.
The UK, for example, used to give a vote to male property owners. The 1918 reforms gave all men over 21 the vote, but only land-owning women over 30 got the vote.
So 1918 as the date for suffrage doesn’t tell the whole story.
In Sweden also men did not have the right to vote.
In Sweden men was given the right to vote 1919.
Both genders did the right to vote 1921.
How about your countries?
What year was men given the right to vote?
And when did men get the right to vote?
And now look at what a mess the world is in…😉