Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
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This timeline lists the dates of the first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries. (Dates for the right to vote, suffrage, as distinct from the right to stand for election and hold office, are listed.)
Some dates relate to regional elections and where possible the second date of general election has been included. Even countries listed may not have universal suffrage for women, and some may have regressed in women's rights since the initial granting of suffrage.
It should be mentioned that for many of the nations listed below, the seeming "belatedness" of woman suffrage (relative to many European and North American nations) did not derive from Islamic politics, but rather from the fact that most of these nations were colonies of European empires for much of the twentieth century and thus had no suffrage until winning national independence. Often national independence and woman's suffrage occurred simultaneously.
- 1918 - Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- 1920 - Albania[1]
- 1921 - Azerbaijan[1]
- 1924 - Tajikistan,[1] Kazakhstan[1]
- 1927 - Turkmenistan[1]
- 1930 - Turkey[1]
- 1932 - Maldives[1]
- 1938 - Uzbekistan[1]
- 1945 - Bosnia, Indonesia,[1] Senegal[1]
- 1946 - British Palestine[1]
- 1947-1956 - Pakistan[1]
- 1948[1]-1980[citation needed] - Iraq
- 1948 - Niger[1]
- 1949-1953 - Syria[1]
- 1952 - Lebanon[1] (An educational requirement was dropped in 1957).[2]
- 1956 - Comoros,[1] Egypt,[1] Mali,[1] Mauritania,[1] Somalia[1]
- 1957 - Malaysia[1][3]
- 1959 - Tunisia[4]
- 1960 - Gambia[1]
- 1961 - Sierra Leone[1]
- 1962 - Algeria[1][3]
- 1963 - Iran,[1][3] Morocco[1][3]
- 1964 - Libya,[3] Sudan[1]
- 1965 - Afghanistan[1][5]
- 1970 - Yemen[1]
- 1972 - Bangladesh[1][3]
- 1974 - Jordan[1][3]
- 1978 - Nigeria
- 1993[3]-1994[1] - Kazakhstan
- 1999 - Qatar[6]
- 2002 - Bahrain[7]
- 2003 - Oman[8]
- 2005 - Kuwait[1][3]
- 2006 - United Arab Emirates[9]
- 2015 - Saudi Arabia[10][11]
Brunei has no suffrage for men or women since 1965.
See also [edit]
- Rawya Ateya (first female parliamentarian in Egypt and the Arab world)
- List of equal or majority Muslim countries
- List of women's rights activists
- Sex segregation in Islam
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- Women in Islam
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Woman Suffrage Timeline International - Winning the Vote Around the World
- ^ Books.google.com
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Infoplease.com
- ^ Women's Suffrage
- ^ revoked under Taliban rule 1996-2001
- ^ Washingtoninstitute.org
- ^ Freedomhouse.org, Bahrain
- ^ Freedomhouse.org, Oman
- ^ Untitled Document
- ^ Women in Saudi Arabia 'to vote and run in elections'
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/09/saudi-arabia-women-vote.html
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