Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== France ====
The April&nbsp;21, 1944 ordinance of the [[French Committee of National Liberation]], confirmed in October 1944 by the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic|French provisional government]], extended the suffrage to French women.<ref>{{cite web|author=Maury, Jean-Pierre  |url=http://mjp.univ-perp.fr/france/co1944-2.htm |title=Ordonnance du 21 avril 1944 relative à l'organisation des pouvoirs publics en France après la Libération |publisher=Mjp.univ-perp.fr |access-date=January 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/femmes/citoyennete_politique_de-Gaulle.asp |title=La citoyenneté politique des femmes&nbsp;– La décision du Général de Gaulle |author=Assemblée nationale |access-date=December 19, 2007 |language=fr}}</ref> The first elections with female participation were the municipal elections of April&nbsp;29, 1945 and the [[1945 French legislative election|parliamentary elections]] of 21 October 1945. "Indigenous [[Muslim]]" women in [[French Algeria]] also known as Colonial Algeria, had to wait until a July 3, 1958, decree.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.patrick-weil.com/Fichiers%20du%20site/2005%20-%20Le%20statut%20des%20musulmans%20en%20Alg%C3%A9rie%20coloniale%20(Doc.%20fran%C3%A7aise).pdf |title=Le statut des musulmans en Algérie coloniale. Une nationalité française dénaturée |author=Patrick Weil |publisher=in La Justice en Algérie 1830–1962, La Documentation française, Collection Histoire de la Justice, Paris, 2005, pp. 95–109 |access-date=December 19, 2007 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023230221/http://www.patrick-weil.com/Fichiers%20du%20site/2005%20-%20Le%20statut%20des%20musulmans%20en%20Alg%C3%A9rie%20coloniale%20(Doc.%20fran%C3%A7aise).pdf |archive-date=October 23, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://clio.revues.org/document524.html |title=1945–1958 : un million et demi de citoyennes interdites de vote ! |journal=Clio |author=Lefeuvre, Daniel |date=March 26, 2003 |issue=1 |access-date=December 19, 2007 |language=fr|doi=10.4000/clio.524 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Although several countries had started extending suffrage to women from the end of the 19th century, France was one of the last countries to do so in Europe. In fact, the [[Napoleonic Code]] declares the legal and political incapacity of women, which blocked attempts to give women political rights.<ref name="Europe 1">{{cite web |last1=des Cars |first1=Jean |title=LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? La France est l'un des derniers pays d'Europe à avoir autorisé le droit de vote des femmes |url=https://www.europe1.fr/emissions/Au-coeur-de-l-histoire/le-saviez-vous-la-france-est-lun-des-derniers-pays-deurope-a-avoir-autorise-le-droit-de-vote-des-femmes-3953530 |website=Europe 1 |date=March 7, 2020 |access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref> First feminist claims started emerging during the French Revolution in 1789. [[Condorcet]] expressed his support for women's right to vote in an article published in [[Journal de la Société de 1789]], but his project failed.<ref name="Gouvernement">{{cite web |title=Les Françaises obtiennent le droit de vote |url=https://www.gouvernement.fr/partage/10120-21-avril-1944-les-francaises-obtiennent-le-droit-de-vote |website=Gouvernement}}</ref> On 17 January 1913, [[Marie Denizard]] was the first woman to stand as a candidate in a French [[Presidential elections in France|presidential election]] but the state refused to acknowledge her.<ref>{{Cite news |title=TimesMachine: Tuesday January 14, 1913  |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/01/14/issue.html |access-date=2024-11-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> After [[World War I]], French women continued demanding political rights, and despite the [[Chamber of Deputies]] being in favor, the [[Senate]] continuously refused to analyze the law proposal.<ref name="Gouvernement"/> Socialists, and more generally, the political left repeatedly opposed the right to vote for women because they feared their more conservative preferences and their "domination" by priests.<ref name="Europe 1"/><ref name="Colomer-2001" /> It was only after [[World War II]] that women were granted political rights.