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Historical Timeline of Women and Suffrage Women Leaders in the World Women in Politics in the United States Women's Participation in Saudi Arabia Politics Global History of Women's Suffrage
 * Emmeline Pankhurst



[[image:timeline2_rus.svg.png link="http://womensuffrage.org/?page_id=69"]]Historical Timeline of Women and Suffrage

 * [|This timeline] shows when women around the world were granted suffrage and given the right to stand for election (1).
 * [|This is a visual timeline] that shows when women were granted suffrage around the world (2).
 * New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote in 1893
 * **Simimavo Bandaranaike** was the first woman Prime Minister in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, 1960
 * Women are not allowed to vote in Vatican City elections, the only country where women cannot vote.

When Did Women Vote? Interactive Map from Scholastic

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Interactive Data on women's political participation around the world (2015)

Women Leaders in the World
The Tiny Nation of Iceland is Crushing the U.S. in Electing Female Politicians, Fortune (October 31, 2016)
 * Women hold 30 of 63 seats in Parliament making Iceland the most equal country in in the world without a quota system
 * Rwanda has 64% women lawmakers; Bolivia has 53% followed by Cuba and then Iceland

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, sometimes referred to as the "Leader of the Free World"
 * Named Time's Person of the Year in 2015

Women Rising: Political Leadership in Africa

Interview with Bharati Silwal-Giri, member of Nepali Congress Party and expert on gender

Text of speech by Michelle Bachelet, UN Women Executive Director, on women's political participation worldwide

Female Heads of State and Government in 2017 with links to pages about each

Number of Women Leaders Around the World has Grown, but They're Still a Small Group, from Pew Research Center, July 30, 2015
 * In 2015, there were 18 female world leaders; one in ten of the leaders of United Nations member states were women
 * Half are the first woman to hold that country's highest office
 * Finland has the highest percentage of women in ministerial positions: 62.5% (January 2015 data)
 * U.S. has 26.1%

Facts and Figures: Leadership and Political Participation, from United Nations


 * Women in Politics in the United States**

CrashCourse on Women's Suffrage in the United States

TIME Magazine takes a look at fifty women who changed the face of American politics, including Shirley Chisholm, Tammy Duckworth, and Tammy Baldwin

NPR Article: Why Aren't There More Women in Politics?

Nancy Pelosi, the only Speaker of the House in US Congressional history, discusses the need for women in politics in a 2010 TedTalk

Kimberly Peeler-Allen, founder of Higher Heights, discusses the role and importance of black women in politics



**Women's Participation in Saudi Arabia Politics**
Women voted in Saudi Arabia for the first time in 2015.
 * In Historic Saudi Elections, these Women Stepped Up as Voters and Candidates
 * Saudi Arabia Women Vote in Election for the First Time, BBC News, December 12, 2015
 * Saudi Monarch Grants Women Right to Vote, September 25, 2011
 * Shura Shake-Up: Saudi Women Allowed on Consultative Council, January 2013

Ladies First: Saudi Arabia's Female Candidates, International Times Documentaries, //New York Times//
 * Saudi Women Aren't Allowed to Drive or Travel Alone, but now they can run for political office

Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Life as a Woman in Saudi Arabia?

**Global History of Women's Suffrage**
[|This list] gives examples of leaders in the women's suffrage movement and provides biographies for them (3). **BROKEN** (4)

[|A brief video] explaining the spread of women's suffrage throughout the world (5).

[|The Electoral Act of 1893] granted women the right to vote in New Zealand.
 * New Zealand was the first country to grant women suffrage and this website shows the text of the document (6).

[|Frederick Douglass] attended the woman's right convention at Seneca Falls and this speech shows the relationship between women's suffrage and African-American suffrage in the United States (7).



Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

 * [[image:Quill_and_ink.png link="@http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pankhurst_emmeline.shtml"]]Biography from BBC**

**Primary Sources**
 * [|Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or Death speech] advocating for women's suffrage in England in 1888 (8)
 * ** My Own Story, 1914 **

Emmeline Pankhurst. Elisabeth Kaiser. Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2017

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