The movement for Women's suffrage, led by suffragists and suffragettes, was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending equal suffrage, the right to vote to women, according to the one-man-one-vote principle.
In 1869 the territory of Wyoming became the first modern place where equal suffrage was extended to women. The earliest countries extending that right were New Zealand in 1893, Australia in 1902, and Finland in 1906.
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Women's suffrage has been granted (and been revoked) at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women (and men) from certain races were still unable to vote.
The table below lists years when women's suffrage was enacted in various places. In many cases the first voting took place in a subsequent year.