Equal rights to vote with men were given to women in the
following years:
1917 Russia, Holland
1918 Ireland, Poland, Luxembourg, Great Britain
1919 Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia
1920 United States, Hungary
1929 Rumania, Greece, Ecuador
1931 Spain
1932 Brazil, Thailand
1934 Cuba
1935 India
1944 France
1945 Italy, Japan
1946 Yugoslavia
1947 China
1948 Israel, Belgium, Korea
1949 Chile, Costa Rica
1950 Ghana
1956 Vietnam, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria, Cambodia, Senegal, Laos
1957 Haiti
1959 Jamaica, Tunisia
1960 Somalia
1962 Morocco
1963 Kenya, Libya, Iran
1971 Switzerland
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