This timeline lists the dates of the first women's suffrage in Muslim majority countries. Dates for the right to vote, suffrage, as distinct from the right to stand for election and hold office, are listed.
Some countries with majority Muslim populations established universal suffrage upon national independence, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In most North Africa countries, women participated in the first national elections or soon following. 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.
Video Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
Timeline
1917
- Crimean People's Republic
1918
- Azerbaijan Democratic Republic;
- Kyrgyz SSR (Soviet Republic)
1920
- Albania
1921
- Azerbaijan SSR (Soviet Republic)
1924
- Tajik SSR (Soviet Republic)
- Kazakh SSR (Soviet Republic)
1927
- Turkmen SSR (Soviet Republic)
1930
- Turkey (municipal elections)
1932
- Maldives
1934
- Turkey (national elections)
1938
- Uzbek SSR (Soviet Republic)
1945
- Senegal
1946
- Mandatory Palestine
- French Somaliland
1947
- Pakistan
1948
- Niger
1949
- Syria
1952
- Lebanon (An educational requirement).
- Ivory Coast
1956
- Comoros
- Egypt
- Mali
- British Somaliland
1957
- Lebanon (universal).
- Malaya (Now Peninsular Malaysia)
1958
- Upper Volta
- Chad
- Guinea
1959
- Tunisia
- Brunei
1960
- Gambia
1961
- Sierra Leone
- Mauritania
1962
- Algeria
- Brunei (revoked)
1963
- Iran (after a referendum)
- Morocco
1964
- Libya
- Sudan
1965
- Afghanistan (first time)
1967
- South Yemen
1970
- North Yemen
1972
- Bangladesh
1973
- Bahrain (Bahrain did not hold elections until 2002)
1974
- Jordan
1978
- Nigeria (North)
1980
- Iraq
1985
- Kuwait (first time)
1996
- Afghanistan (revoked by Taliban)
1999
- Qatar
- Kuwait (revoked)
2001
- Afghanistan (re-granted after the fall of Taliban)
2003
- Oman
2005
- Kuwait (re-granted)
2015
- Saudi Arabia (introduced along with right to run for municipal elections)
Maps Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
See also
- Rawya Ateya (first female parliamentarian in Egypt and the Arab world)
- List of equal or majority Muslim countries
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- List of women's rights activists
- Sex segregation in Islam
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- Women in Islam
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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