USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The world’s first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year. In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), in 1991; AI is the smallest Swiss canton with c. 14, 100 inhabitants in 1990.

Detailed explanation-2: -When it was approved, on 15 December 1917, Sarojini Naidu led a deputation of 14 leading women from throughout India to present the demand to include women’s suffrage in the new Franchise Bill under development by the Government of India.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1918, the government introduced a law called the Representation of the People Act. All men over the age of 21 and all women over 30 who owned a home, or were married to a homeowner, were allowed to vote in elections.

Detailed explanation-4: -First in the world Although a number of other territories enfranchised women before 1893, New Zealand can justly claim to be the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all adult women.

Detailed explanation-5: -It commemorates three founders of America’s women’s suffrage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.