Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote• In 1900 only one country allowed women to vote
• 1950 = 69 • 1975 = 129 • Despite the right to vote their were still differences in education and pay - not a given in EVERY country |
SummaryNot everyone was given the right to vote. The numbers drastically increased after the World Wars and by 1975 129 countries allowed women to vote.
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How would it have affected major world issues and leaders in history if women had always had the right to vote?
“...while women represent fifty percent of the world’s population, they perform nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property”
- United Nations