USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dutch women won the vote in 1919, and American women on August 26, 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment (the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for racial minorities). Irish women won the same voting rights as men in the Irish Free State constitution, 1922.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Government of India Act 1935 extended the vote to include around 6 million women, but even so covered only 2.5% of the women in India. “In the 1937 elections, 10 women were elected from general constituencies, 41 from reserved constituencies, and five were nominated to provincial legislative councils".

Detailed explanation-4: -All women were allowed to vote to start from the first general elections in 1951. The British opposed allowing women to vote in various ways, for years until India was independent. On the contrary Indian constituent assembly adopted universal suffrage and voting rights for women without much debate.

Detailed explanation-5: -Women did not have the power to make contracts, own property or vote. A woman was seen merely as a servant to her husband. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, that began to change when many bold, outspoken women championed social reforms of prisons, war, alcohol and slavery.