In the US, women were not allowed to vote until August 18th 1920.
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The territory of Wyoming was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869, prior to the 19th Amendment. It became a state in 1890.
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In August 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified giving women the right to vote in Presidential elections. This was the first year that all women in the US were allowed to vote. Several states in the West allowed women to vote before 1920, beginning with Wyoming in 1869.
The right to vote "Women's Suffrage".In 1893 New Zealand was the first self-governing nation in the world where all adult women, including Maori, won the right to vote in national elections.Actually, because the Cook Islands (a New Zealand dependancy) held an election earlier than New Zealand, they were the first nation in which aldult women actually voted.Australia gave the vote to all white women in 1902 (aboriginal women had to wait until 1960!) and the US gave all women nationally the right to vote in 1920.There are still many countries in which women do not have the right to vote.
Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, was the US first president to be elected after the women's suffrage amendment was ratified.