In response to this Senate resistance the UFSF collaborated with the more militant 1909 poster: "French women want to vote - against alcohol, slums and war" But universal suffrage only really came into play after India gained independence in 1947, and when the Indian constitution was enacted in 1950. Women were able to exercise that right in elections in 1957, and Colombia has since gone on to elect women for various government offices, although they are still underrepresented as a whole. © Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images ]Fact check: COVID-19 virus can't be seen under ordinary optical microscopeWalmart, Target, and innovative retail startups soar as pandemic-era bankruptcies plague smaller chains and restaurantsby Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on Aug. 18, 1920. In 1988, Benazir Bhutto was elected as prime minister, the first Muslim woman to hold this post, and in recent years, more and more Pakistani women are registering to vote, with a 24% increase in the registration of [Pictured: Two women from Pakistan travel on a train in 1953. ]Long known for being a leader in equality, it’s somewhat surprising that women in Norway fought for nearly 30 years for the right to vote. ]In 1994, Omani women were awarded the right to vote and stand in parliamentary elections. ]After years of campaigning by the Egyptian Feminist Union, which was founded by activist [Pictured: Egyptian feminist Doria Shafik (L) meets with Egyptian Chief Army Commander Gen. Naguib on Aug. 8, 1952. On International Women's … ]In Australia, the women’s suffrage movement was initially divided between two regions, South Australia and Western Australia. The political activities of French women during the revolutionary years inspired many women around the world. ]Pakistan granted women the right to vote in 1947, which was reaffirmed in 1956 to include a provision for a certain number of reserved seats in parliament. Their first opportunity did not come until December 2015, almost a year after the king’s death in January. ]Algeria was under the rule of France until 1962, at which time it obtained its independence. [Pictured: A woman votes in Bogota, Colombia, on March 18, 1962. In 1917, a constitutional reform already allowed women to be electable. As of 2017, just over 25% of [Pictured: A woman sits on a bench in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1952. Swiss women won the right to vote in federal elections in 1971. © Nationaal Archief // Wikimedia Commons ]The suffrage movement started in Switzerland in the late 1800s, but it wasn’t until 1971 that women were legally allowed to vote, and in some Swiss cantons, women couldn’t vote until 1991. © Library of Congress // Wikimedia Commons

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In the south, after a struggle for equal rights that lasted for decades, the South Australian parliament passed the [Pictured: Women voters outside a polling place in Brisbane, Australia, on May 25, 1907. Check out the timeline and see when women around the world earned the right to vote.Led by suffrage activist Kate Sheppard, the women of New Zealand [Pictured: The National Council of Women in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1896. And despite France being widely regarded as a country that accepts open sexuality, it still lagged behind the US and many other Western countries when it came to the legalization of birth control and abortion. © National Library of New Zealand // Wikimedia Commons Immediately after World War II, France, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, and China were added to the group. © Touring Club Italiano/Marka/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ][Pictured: Actress Gina Lollobrigida exits the polls in Rome, Italy, 1953. © KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images