As strange it may sound for us nowadays, women's right to vote had required a longtime fight by many brave women, who had to fight prejudice and inequity. Sweden is the first European country that allowed taxpayer women to vote in the year 1862.
new zealand
Nearly all countries in the world allow women to vote.
Wyoming
because it was the first place in the world to allow women to vote.
New Zealand in 1893 is often said to be the first country in the world to give women the right to vote.
new zealand
1880's
Wyoming
1880's
It is a matter of civil rights. Often women are not given the right to vote or other rights in the country. They are treated as second class citizens. In the United States women didn't gain the right to vote until 1920.
1893 - New Zealand was the first sovereign state in the world to allow woman to vote.New Zealand was the first country in the world to allow women the right to vote in 1893.women were granted the right to vote in new zealand first in 1893 (previous attempts had been made but this was the first time that it was legally not blocked), though they couldn't run until 1919. It was one of the first 'western' (in culture) areas that granted women the right to vote.New Zealand was the first country to give women voting rights; women gained the right to vote in 1893. Whereas Twenty States and one Territory of the USA were first in 1869 and Isle of Man were second in 1881.New zealand was the first country to extend voting rights to all of its citizens as voting rights had already been extended to indigenous males when women gained the right to vote.
Most so democratic countries allow women to vote. Some, because of their culture, still do not allow it, though every country has some restriction as to who can vote.