Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning
in the mid-19th century, aside from the work being done by women for
broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms,
women sought to change voting laws to allow them to vote. National and
international organizations formed to coordinate efforts towards that
objective, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
(founded in 1904 in Berlin, Germany), as well as for equal civil
rights for women.Many instances occurred in recent centuries where
women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. The
first province in the world to award and maintain women's suffrage
continuously, was Wyoming Territory in 1869, and the first sovereign
nation was Norway in 1913. In the years after 1869, a number of
provinces held by the British and Russian empires conferred women's
suffrage, and some of these became sovereign nations at a later point,
like New Zealand, Australia, and Finland. Women who owned property
gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893,
women in the then British colony of New Zealand were granted the right
to vote. In Australia, non-Aboriginal women progressively gained the
right to vote between 1894 and 1911 (federally in 1902). Prior to
independence, in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, women were the
first in the world to gain racially-equal suffrage, with both the
right to vote and to stand as candidates in 1906. Most major Western
powers extended voting rights to women in the interwar period,
including Canada (1917), Britain and Germany (1918), Austria and the
Netherlands (1919) and the United States (1920). Notable exceptions in
Europe were France, where women could not vote until 1944, Greece
(1952), and Switzerland (1971). Now that Saudi Arabia has granted
voting rights to women (2015), women can vote in every country that
has elections.Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the
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