1921

1920:
-- Woman suffrage is granted in Albania,
the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
-- Canadian women get the right to stand
for election (but not for all offices ).

-- Sweden gives women voting rights with some restrictions.

-- Armenia and Lithuania grant woman suffrage.
-- Belgium grants women the right to stand for election.
-- Margaret Sanger forms the American Birth Control League
(which evolves into Planned Parenthood in 1942) and opens a
birth-control clinic in New York City in 1923.

1920:
After over seventy years of struggle,
women are finally granted the right to
vote in the United States as the 19th
Amendment is ratified. With most
southern states against the
Amendment, the vote comes down to
the state of Tennessee where it passes
by one vote in the Tennessee house.
The deciding vote is cast by
Representative Harry Burn who
carried in his pocket a letter from his
mother encouraging him to vote for
womens suffrage.

1922:

1925:

-- Irish Free State, separating from the

Italy grants limited voting

UK, gives equal voting rights to women.

(local elections, only)

rights to women.

-- Burma grants women voting rights.