Editing Women's suffrage (section)

====Tunisia====

Women's suffrage was introduced in Tunisia in 1957.

The context of the introduction of women's suffrage in Tunisia was a part of a big reform program in women's rights. Tunisia became an independent nation in 1956 and saw a number of progressive reforms in favor of women's rights under the Secular President  [[Habib Bourguiba]], whose Code of Personal Statue (CSP) replaced the Islamic [[sharia law]] with a secular family law: raised the age of marriage, abolished arranged marriages and polygamy and introduced equal divorce law, as well as breaking Islamic sex segregation and encouraged women to appear unveiled.<ref>Tchaïcha, J. D., Arfaoui, K. (2017). The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement: From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking. Storbritannien: Taylor & Francis. p. 78</ref> This progressive policy was completed by the introduction of women's suffrage the same year. 
Women were granted the right to vote in 1957, and became eligible for political office in 1959.<ref>Freedom House, Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2010 - Tunisia, 3 March 2010, https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/freehou/2010/en/72312 [accessed 17 February 2025]</ref>