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On 12 March 1921 Mrs Edith Cowan became the first women to be elected to federal parliament in Australia. She was sixty years old.
In the year 1918, was the year women to be elected to Parliament. Ten years later, Representation of the People Act granted women the right to vote.
Edith Cowan was an Australian politician and social campaigner. She was the first women to be elected to parliament in Australia when she became a member of Western Australian parliament in 1921. She was president of Karrakatta club, a women exclusive club which campaigned for women suffrage and succeeded in gaining it in 1899.
The first woman to be elected to the Parliament of Canada was Agnes McPahil. She stayed in Parliament for 19 years, she was the only woman in the House of Commons, she was one of the famous five, which helped appoint a woman senator, and fought for suffrage for women. Mackenzie King offered her a position in his cabinet to join his political party.
Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, was the US first president to be elected after the women's suffrage amendment was ratified.
Currently only eight women elected in the 8th Majlis (elected in March 2008), in comparison to four women in the first, second, and third Majlis; nine in the fourth Majlis; 14 in the fifth and sixth Majlis sessions; and 13 in the seventh. Those women elected to the new Majlis are all conservative. Source: http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Analyses_12/Iran_s_2008.shtml
First women president for INC was Annie Basant but elected women president was Sarojini Naidu
Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, was the US first president to be elected after the women's suffrage amendment was ratified.
Shrimati Pratibha Devi Patil is the first elected woman President of India.
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No, it is not true that women can not be elected for presidency. Women can be elected for presidency.