1960-1969
1960: Women of Cyprus, Gambia and Tonga get suffrage.
1960: Canadian women win full rights to stand for election, as Native women are also included.
1961: Burundi, Malawy, Paraguay, Rwanda and Sierra Leone adopt woman suffrage.
1961: Women in the Bahamas gain suffrage, with limits.
1961: Women in El Salvador are permitted to stand for election.
1962: Algeria, Monaco, Uganda and Zambia adopts woman suffrage.
1962: Australia adopts full woman suffrage (a few restrictions remain).
1963: Women in Morocco, Congo, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kenya gain suffrage.
1964: Sudan adopts woman suffrage.
1964: The Bahamas adopts full suffrage with restrictions.
1965: Women gain full suffrage in Afghanistan, Botswana and Lesotho.
1967: Ecuador adopts full suffrage with a few restrictions.
1968: Full woman suffrage adopted in Swaziland.
1970-1979
1970: Yemen adopts full suffrage.
1970: Andorra permits women to vote.
1971: Switzerland adopts woman suffrage, and the United States lowers the voting age for both men and women to eighteen.
1972: Bangladesh grants woman suffrage.
1973: Full suffrage granted to women in Bahrain.
1973: Women permitted to stand for election in Andover and San Marino.
1974: Jordan and the Solomon Islands extend suffrage to women.
1975: Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique give suffrage to women.
1976: Portugal adopts full woman suffrage with a few restrictions.
1978: The Republic of Moldova adopts full suffrage with a few restrictions.
1978: Women in Zimbabwe are able to stand for election.
1979: Women in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia gain full suffrage rights.
1980-1989
1980: Iran gives women the vote.
1984: Full suffrage granted to women of Liechtenstein.
1984: In South Africa, voting rights are extended to Coloureds and Indians.
1986: Central African Republic adopts woman suffrage.
1990-1999
1990: Samoan women gain full suffrage.
1994: Kazakhstan grants women full suffrage.
1994: Black women gain full suffrage in South Africa.
2000-
2005: Kuwaiti Parliament grants women of Kuwait full suffrage.
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I've cross-checked this list where possible, but there may be errors. If you've got a correction, please send a reference, preferably on the Net.
Text copyright 2000-2006 © Jone Johnson Lewis
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