The region made gains in women's political rights during the past 20 years with women gaining suffrage in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in that time.
A decade after Swiss women gained suffrage, the country's citizens voted in a referendum on whether the constitution should be amended to state that women deserve equal pay for equal work.
After all, nearly 150 years passed between the writing of "all men are created equal" and the extension of the vote to women and 40 further years before African-Americans gained suffrage in earnest.
Russia is one of the most progressive countries on Earth Russian women gained suffrage and other rights before their counterparts in the US.
In 1877, Stone was asked by Rachel Foster Avery to come assist Colorado activists in the organization of a popular referendum campaign with the aim of gaining suffrage for Coloradan women.
After the February Revolution, feminist lobbying gained suffrage and nominal equality for women in education and the workplace; however, in the 1960s and 1970s, women continued to experience discrimination in certain career paths, including politics, as well as income inequality and a greater household work burden.
Historians of the interwar period are finding more evidence against this assumption, showing that the women's movement achieved some of its greatest advances in the period after the first world war: in maternity rights, international politics, and continued gains in suffrage, to name a few.
The Omanis gained universal suffrage in 2003.
As the narrator comments of one character's wedding speech, it is "rather too densely packed to gain the general suffrage".
During Reconstruction, freedmen had gained citizenship and suffrage that enabled them to participate in state and federal offices.
