# What about other countries?

The fight for women´s suffrage was a long and irregular process. Sometimes female vote was only granted for local elections, or some racial or ethnic groups were excluded. Often, the right to vote and the right to run for elective office were given at separate times. In any case, women achieved their political rights in different moments depending on the countries as you can find out by reading here. Then you can answer the questions below.

# Now it´s your turn

# Question

Which was the first country to give women the right of suffrage in a permanent way?

# Answers

Option 1

Australia

Option 2

New Zealand

# Feedback

In 1902 but aboriginal women were left out

In 1893 but the law did not grant women the right to hold office in Parliament

# Solution

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# Question

Which was the first country to allow women both to vote and to run for office in Parliament?

# Answers

Option 1

Finland

Option 2

Norway

# Feedback

It was the first country that granted both rights in 1906

Norway granted women´s suffrage a bit later, in 1913

# Solution

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# Question

When were Spanish women allowed to vote for the first time?

# Answers

Option 1

In 1936, at the end of the Civil War

Option 2

In 1931, at the beginning of the II Republic

# Feedback

And the end of the war neither men nor women had suffrage because of the Franco´s dictatorship

The Constitution of 1931 granted equal and full rights for women

# Solution

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# Question

Which was the last Western country to grant women´s suffrage?

# Answers

Option 1

Italy

Option 2

Switzerland

# Feedback

In Italy women got suffrage after World War II

Women obtained the right to vote in national elections in 1971, but only in 1991 was suffrage in local elections granted to women in all the cantons.

# Solution

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