<P> The United States gave women equal voting rights in all states with the Nineteenth Amendment ratified in 1920 . Canada and a few Latin American nations passed women's suffrage before World War II while the vast majority of Latin American nations established women's suffrage in the 1940s (see table in Summary below). The last Latin American country to give women the right to vote was Paraguay in 1961 . </P> <P> In December 2015, women were first allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia (municipal elections). </P> <P> Extended political campaigns by women and their supporters have generally been necessary to gain legislation or constitutional amendments for women's suffrage . In many countries, limited suffrage for women was granted before universal suffrage for men; for instance, literate women or property owners were granted suffrage before all men received it . The United Nations encouraged women's suffrage in the years following World War II, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) identifies it as a basic right with 189 countries currently being parties to this Convention . </P> <P> In ancient Athens, often cited as the birthplace of democracy, only adult, male citizens who owned land were permitted to vote . Through subsequent centuries, Europe was generally ruled by monarchs, though various forms of parliament arose at different times . The high rank ascribed to abbesses within the Catholic Church permitted some women the right to sit and vote at national assemblies--as with various high - ranking abbesses in Medieval Germany, who were ranked among the independent princes of the empire . Their Protestant successors enjoyed the same privilege almost into modern times . </P>

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