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First Countries To Fully Give Women The Right To Vote

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New Zealand

Australia

Finland (formerly a Grand Duchy under the Russian crown)

Norway (restricted franchise 1907, all women over 25: 1913)

Denmark and Iceland (a Danish dependency until 1918)

USSR

Netherlands

Great Britain and Ireland (women over 30 years: 1918)

Poland

Austria

Germany

Canada

1893

1902

1906

1907

1915

1917

1917

1918

1918

1918

1918

1918



First Women Prime Ministers And Presidents

  Name Position Country   Year 

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3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Indira Gandhi

Golda Meir

Maria Estela Peron

Elizabeth Domitien

Margaret Thatcher

Dr Maria Lurdes Pintasilgo

Vigdis Finbogadottir

Mary Eugenia Charles

Gro Harlem

PM

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President

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President

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Ceylon (SRI Lanka)

India

Israel

Argentina

Central African Republic

United Kingdom

Portugal

Iceland

Dominica

Norway

1960

1966

1969

1974

1975

1979

1979

1980

1980

1981