Finland Grants Women Suffrage
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Human Rights, Elections, Voting
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, Scandinavian History
- Geographical Location: Finland
- Date: July 20, 1906
Article abstract: Finland’s franchise law of 1906 which made the small country the first European state to grant suffrage to women, was part of a reform effort by the Swede-Finn leaders.
Summary of Event
It was against the background of increased Russification that Finnish nationalism developed dramatically after 1890 and led to the 1906 reforms that brought voting rights to women and several other liberating changes. Russia had acquired control of Finland in 1809 after a century of rivalry with Sweden for control of the country. From 1809 until the...
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