January 1, 1970

France finally extended suffrage to women in October 1944 but ‘indigenous Muslim’ women in French Algeria had to wait until 1958.

After emerging from a period of Fascism (1922-1943), Italy finally gave the vote to all citizens over the age of twenty one in the referendum of June 1946 when voters were asked to choose between a monarchy and a republic.

Female suffrage was introduced in Switzerland after 7 February 1971 but the small canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden didn’t grant women the vote until 1991.