Suffragists - activists (consisting mostly of women) in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries (the USA and Great Britain), fighting for electoral rights for women.

Check also: Universal suffrage

The map represents a year in which the country (or it's predecessor)* introduced full voting rights for its women. If the country introduced some limited voting rights earlier, it won't be shown on the map. The darker the color, the later the country introduced rights. If only a part of the country (region, oblast, canton etc.) introduced full voting rights, it won't be shown on the map, as rights must be in effect on the whole country. Grey color means no data is available.

* e.g. Czechoslovakia introduced full rights in 1920, so the Czech Republic and Slovakia share the same year, due to the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia (1993)



Source: my own work, see the R script

Data: mentioned at the end of article

Did you notice a division between the 'north' and the 'south'?

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More historical interesting facts:



Women's voting rights in the year 1908. The map is showing the situation of women's suffrage in the world at that time. In Canada, were municipal suffrage was regulated by each province, women's suffrage was limited in many cases to widows and unmarried women.

Source: Harper's Magazine's issue of 25 April 1908 (Wikimedia Commons)



Poster which appeared in the magazine 'Puck', during the Empire State Campaign — a hard-fought referendum on a suffrage amendment to the New York State constitution. The referendum failed in 1915.

Source: Henry "Hy" Mayer, restored by Adam Cuerden (Wikimedia Commons)

Everything changed four years later. In the year 1919, USA Congres accepted XIX amendment to the US Constitution giving women full voting rights. In 1918, women in Great Britain got limited voting rights, later in 1928 — full voting rights.



The first female MPs in the world were elected in Finland in 1907. Conservative parliamentarians wear black tops, while social democrats wear white.

Source: Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

Source:

http://womensuffrage.org/?page_id=97

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_suffrage