This is the timeline by country of when women got the right to vote. Some might come as a surprise, such as Switzerland: in 1971 and Kuwait in 2005!  It’s shocking how recent the modern history of the woman’s right to vote is, considering how long white men have been voting. How proud I am of the women who had the courage to fight for all ofus.

• 1893- New Zealand

• 1902- Australia

• 1906- Finland

• 1913- Norway

• 1915- Denmark, Iceland

• 1917- Netherlands

• 1918- Austria, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom

• 1919- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Georgia, United States Of America, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Ukraine

• 1920- Albania, Czech Republic, Iceland, Slovakia 

• 1924- Mongolia

• 1927- Turkey

• 1929- Ecuador, Romania

• 1930- South Africa, Greece

• 1931- Chile, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka

• 1932- Thailand, Brazil, Maldives, Uruguay

• 1934- Cuba, Portugal, Turkey 

• 1935- Myanmar

• 1937- Philippines

• 1938- Bolivia, Uzbekistan

• 1939- El Salvador

• 1941- Panama

• 1942- Dominican Republic

• 1944- Bulgaria, France, Jamaica

• 1945- Croatia, Guyana, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Slovenia, Togo

• 1946- Cameroon, D.P.R. of Korea, Djibouti,Guatemala, Liberia, The F.Y.R. of Macedonia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Serbia, Montenegro

• 1947- Argentina, Japan, Malta, Mexico , Pakistan, Singapore

• 1948- Israel ,Niger, Republic of Korea, Seychelles, Suriname

• 1949- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile², China, Costa Rica, Syria  

• 1950- Barbados,  Haiti, India

• 1951- Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Nepal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• 1952- Bolivia², Côte d'Ivoire , Greece, Lebanon

• 1953- Bhutan, Guyana, Syria

• 1954- Colombia, Belize  

• 1955- Cambodia, Ethiopia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru,

• 1956- Benin,Comoros, Egypt, Gabon, Mali, Mauritius, Somalia

• 1957- Malaysia , Zimbabwe  

• 1958- Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Laos

• 1959- Madagascar, San Marino, Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania  

• 1960-  Cyprus, Gambia, Tonga

• 1961- Bahamas, Burundi, Malawi, Mauritania, Paraguay, Rwanda, Sierra Leone

• 1962- Algeria, Monaco, Uganda, Zambia

• 1963- Afghanistan, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Iran, Kenya, Morocco, Papua New Guinea

• 1964- Libya, Papua New Guinea, Sudan

• 1965- Botswana, Lesotho  

• 1967- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kiribati ,Tuvalu Yemen

• 1968- Nauru, Swaziland

• 1970- Andorra

• 1971- Switzerland

• 1972- Bangladesh

• 1973- San Marino

• 1974- Jordan, Solomon Islands

• 1975- Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu

• 1977- Guinea-Bissau

• 1978- Republic of Moldova

• 1979- Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau

• 1980- Iraq

• 1984- Liechtenstein, South Africa

• 1986- Central African Republic, Djibouti 

• 1989- Namibia

• 1990- Samoa

• 1993- Kazakhstan, Republic of Moldova

• 1994- South Africa

• 1997- Eritrea

• 2002- Bahrain

• 2003- Oman

• 2005- Kuwait

• 2006- United Arab Emirites

• 2007- Qatar