Do women have the right to vote in all countries of the world?
Women in most countries have the right to vote. In Saudi Arabia, however, neither women nor men can vote because the nation is a monarchy with a council that has no legislative (law-making) authority. Voting history varies from country to country. New Zealand gave all women full voting rights in 1893 and in 1902 Australia extended women the right to vote in national elections. In Europe, Finland (1906) and Norway (1913) were the first nations to give women the vote. In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (the document containing the country’s laws) granted voting rights to American women, and English women earned the right to vote beginning in 1928. African women received the right to vote at the same time as African men in such countries as Liberia (1947), Uganda (1958), and Nigeria (1960). Women in…
