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Women's Electoral Rights - Selected Countries

COUNTRY	RIGHT TO VOTE	RIGHT TO SIT	FIRST WOMEN ELECTED
New Zealand	1893	1919	1933
Australia	1902	1902	1943
Finland	1906	1906	1907
Norway	1907/1913	1907/1913	1936
Denmark	1915	1915	1918
USSR	1915	-	-
United Kingdom	1918/1928*	1918	1918
Germany	1918	1918	1919
Czechoslovakia	1918	1918	1920
Netherlands	1919	1917	1918
Austria	1919	1919	1919
Canada	1919	1919	1921
United States	1920	-	-
France	1940	-	-
Italy	1945	-	-

* The UK did not grant all women over 21 the vote until 1928.

Source: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Parlib/Members/women/womenintro.htm