<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Women's suffrage--the right of women to vote--has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world . In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women and men from certain classes or races were still unable to vote . Some countries granted suffrage to both sexes at the same time . This timeline lists years when women's suffrage was enacted . Some countries are listed more than once, as the right was extended to more women according to age, land ownership, etc . In many cases, the first voting took place in a subsequent year . </P> <P> Some women in the Isle of Man (geographically part of the British Isles but not part of the United Kingdom) gained the right to vote in 1881 . Though it did not achieve nationhood until 1907, the colony of New Zealand was the first self - governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in, but not to stand for, parliamentary elections in 1893, followed closely by the colony of South Australia in 1894 (which, unlike New Zealand, allowed women to stand for Parliament). In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1772 . </P> <P> In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the first country in the world to implement truly universal full suffrage, i.e. both active and passive suffrage, by being the first country in the world to give women full political rights, i.e. the rights both to vote and to run for office . It was the second country in the world and the first in Europe to give women the right to vote . The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year . In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), in 1991; AI is the smallest Swiss canton with c. 14,100 inhabitants in 1990 . Women in Switzerland obtained the right to vote at federal level in 1971, and at local cantonal level between 1959 and 1972, except for Appenzell in 1989 / 1990, see Women's suffrage in Switzerland . In Saudi Arabia women were first allowed to vote in December 2015 in the municipal elections . </P>

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