Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Poland ====
Regaining independence in 1918 following the 123-year period of partition and foreign rule,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Davies|first=Norman|title=Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|isbn=9780192801265}}</ref> [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] immediately granted women the right to vote and be elected as of November 28, 1918.<ref name=Timeline>{{cite web|title=The Women Suffrage Timeline|url=http://womensuffrage.org/?page_id=69|website=Women Suffrage and Beyond|access-date=August 7, 2015|archive-date=December 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216151820/http://womensuffrage.org/?page_id=69|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The first women elected to the [[Sejm of the Republic of Poland|Sejm]] in 1919 were: [[Gabriela Balicka]], [[Jadwiga Dziubińska]], [[Irena Kosmowska]], [[Maria Moczydłowska]], [[Zofia Moraczewska]], [[Anna Piasecka]], [[Zofia Sokolnicka]], and [[Franciszka Wilczkowiakowa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bs.sejm.gov.pl/F/6YEKEYLQ269HCBVE1RBBJUQ3FEP6MSL3F6AN2VGAA9AQA5BDPL-47712?func=find-b-0&clear_level=2|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121221130214/http://bs.sejm.gov.pl/F/6YEKEYLQ269HCBVE1RBBJUQ3FEP6MSL3F6AN2VGAA9AQA5BDPL-47712?func=find-b-0&clear_level=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 21, 2012|title=Biblioteka Sejmowa /Parlamentarzyści polscy ("The Sejm Library / Polish deputies"): bs.gov.pl|access-date=August 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rownetraktowanie.gov.pl/aktualnosci/otwarcie-wystawy-kobiety-w-parlamencie|publisher=The Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, Otwarcie wystawy "Kobiety w Parlamencie"|title=Opening of the exhibition "Women in Parliament"|language=pl|date=April 24, 2009|access-date=August 27, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020055356/http://www.rownetraktowanie.gov.pl/aktualnosci/otwarcie-wystawy-kobiety-w-parlamencie|archive-date=October 20, 2014}}</ref>