[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Woman's suffrage - historical background

[Jason Todd <idjason@xxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I just pulled that from CivI.

Arkadiusz Danilecki wrote:
> 
> History of woman's right movement is a bit more complicated tan i saw
> in description provided by J.Todd.
> Here is a timeline:
> 1848 congress in Seneca Falls
> 1870 Rights to Vote for woman in Wyoming (USA)
> 1878 first international congress in Paris
> 1904 International Movement for Woman Right For Vote
> 1893 RFV - New Zeland (Rights for Vote)
> 1902 RFV Australia
> 1906 Finnland (first country in world with woman in parliament)
> 1913 Norway
> 1915 Danmark
> 1917 Holland, Canada, Russia
> 1918 Poland (Because before 1918 we were occupied :-) ), Germany,
> Luxembourg, Ireland
> 1918 England (Only 30+ y/o woman, if pay taxes)
> 1920 USA !!!
> 1928 England
> 
> So, you can write ,,short after'' USA and England all countries have RFV
> for woman, because USA and England were in the middle
> 
> BTW : last country in Europe with RFV - Switzerland (1971)
> 
> A.D.Danilecki "szopen"
> 
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