Women's rights country by country - interactive

In which country do you have laws to prevent violence? Which laws will achieve gender equality? In which country is abortion permitted? Using data from the World Bank and the United Nations, we will provide a snapshot of the rights of women around the world. To select a region and see if there is a law to realize violence, harassment, abortion, property and employment rights, discrimination and equality in the region, place your cursor over the country. Please click the country and post a message to the number. The national data can be displayed based on the size of its population and data of neighboring countries. Click the center of the circle and return to the beginning

The right to vote for women is the right for women to vote in elections. Most countries have enacted women's suffrage in the first half of the 20th century. New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote. On September 19, 1893, New Zealand became the first country to allow women to participate in the elections. The change in the law is the result of the application by Kate Shepherd on behalf of the women's drinking alliance. The petition signed by 32,000 women, almost one quarter of New Zealand women.

In 1893 New Zealand became the first country to allow women to participate in the public elections. At the same time, the first women's rights meeting was held in Seneca Falls in the United States in 1848. The 19th century American women's rights movement was led by Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and Elizabeth Kadistanton (1815-1902). In the early 19th century, women were wearing thin clothes. In the 1830's they inflated their sleeves. In the 1950s, they were wearing whales and wire frames under a skirt called Crinoline. In the late 1860s, women started to wear shackles. The front of the skirt is flat, but it protrudes outward on the back. This is called Banjo, it disappeared in the 1890s.

Throughout history, women have struggled for equality all over the world. European women fight for the right to vote for a long time before obtaining full voting rights. Every country has ratified female voting rights at different times, but it happened in most of Europe in the early 20th century. In 1906, the first country that developed universal election rights was Finland ("Voting rights for women in Europe"). One of the last opened countries on women's voting rights

This was the first wave of feminism when ladies in Europe and North America began fighting for rights and seeking legal issues such as female voting rights in the second half of the 19th century. By the beginning of the 20th century, women were given voting rights in many countries, which brought about a major change in the role of women in society. Especially in the 1920s, women began taking more actions to break the boundaries set in the past. Nevertheless, in most countries, women now have their own political rights and the number of women working has increased significantly, but in some parts of the world men still have "excellent" gender and It is considered. Therefore, in the late 1960s, the second wave of feminism, also known as women's liberation movement, began. It focuses mainly on female reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, domestic violence, rape and abortion. The third feminist wave that appeared in the 1990s mainly concerned with sexual activity.