{"id":9468,"date":"2020-10-05T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/key-facts-about-womens-suffrage-around-the-world-a-century-after-u-s-ratified-19th-amendment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:44:19","slug":"key-facts-about-womens-suffrage-around-the-world-a-century-after-u-s-ratified-19th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/10\/05\/key-facts-about-womens-suffrage-around-the-world-a-century-after-u-s-ratified-19th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about women\u2019s suffrage around the world, a century after U.S. ratified 19th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Soweto in April 1994 for South Africa’s first free and democratic general election. (Brooks Kraft LLC\/Sygma via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This year marks the centennial<\/a> of the ratification of the 19th Amendment<\/a> to the United States Constitution, which guarantees women the right to vote. But the United States was hardly the first country to codify women\u2019s suffrage, and barriers to vote persisted for some groups of U.S. women for decades. At least 20 nations preceded the U.S., according to a Pew Research Center analysis of women\u2019s enfranchisement measures in 198 countries and self-administering territories. Today, none of these 198 countries and territories bar women from voting because<\/em> of their sex; some countries do not hold national elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a closer look at the history of women\u2019s suffrage around the world. This analysis focuses on when women in each country won the right to vote in national<\/em> elections, not regional or local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>