Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Romania ====
The timeline of granting women's suffrage in Romania was gradual and complex, due to the turbulent historical period when it happened. The concept of universal suffrage for all ''men'' was introduced in 1918,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.stevenson.ac.uk/comenius/articles/univsuff/ro_db/suff_1b.htm|title=Comenius 1 History Project – A History of the right to vote in Romania|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009152036/http://www2.stevenson.ac.uk/comenius/articles/univsuff/ro_db/suff_1b.htm|archive-date=October 9, 2016}}</ref> and reinforced by the [[1923 Constitution of Romania]]. Although this constitution opened the way for the possibility of women's suffrage too (Article 6),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutia.ro/const1923.htm|title=Constitutia Romaniei, monitorul oficial, constitutiunea din 1866, constitutia din 1866, Principatele Unite Romane, Carol I|author1=T.A.|author2= Dezibel Media|author3= Romania|date=January 2, 2000}}</ref> this did not materialize: the Electoral Law of 1926 did not grant women the right to vote, maintaining all male suffrage.<ref name="Summary">{{cite web|url=http://www.impowr.org/content/summary-rights-vote-romania#footnote2_urb4lp3|title=Summary: Rights to Vote in Romania|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009181905/http://www.impowr.org/content/summary-rights-vote-romania#footnote2_urb4lp3|archive-date=October 9, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Starting in 1929, women who met certain qualifications were allowed to vote in local elections.<ref name="Summary"/> After the [[1938 Constitution of Romania|Constitution from 1938]] (elaborated under [[Carol II of Romania]] who sought to implement an authoritarian regime) the voting rights were extended to women for national elections by the Electoral Law 1939,<ref name="fp.kross.ro">{{cite web |url=http://fp.kross.ro/pdf/le_1939.pdf |title=LEGEA ELECTORALA|publisher=kross.ro|access-date=February 9, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216133450/http://fp.kross.ro/pdf/le_1939.pdf |archive-date=February 16, 2016 }}</ref> but both women and men had restrictions, and in practice these restrictions affected women more than men (the new restrictions on men also meant that men lost their previous universal suffrage). Although women could vote, they could be elected only to the [[Senate of Romania|Senate]] and not to the [[Chamber of Deputies (Romania)|Chamber of Deputies]] (Article 4 (c)).<ref name="fp.kross.ro"/> (the Senate was later abolished in 1940). Due to the historical context of the time, which included the dictatorship of [[Ion Antonescu]], there were no elections in Romania between 1940 and 1946. In 1946, Law no. 560 gave full equal rights to men and women to vote and to be elected in the Chamber of Deputies; and women voted in the [[1946 Romanian general election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fp.kross.ro/pdf/le_1946.pdf |title=LEGEA Nr. 560|access-date=February 9, 2016|publisher=kross.ro |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216133614/http://fp.kross.ro/pdf/le_1946.pdf |archive-date=February 16, 2016 }}</ref> The [[Constitution of Romania|Constitution of 1948]] gave women and men equal civil and political rights (Article 18).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutia.ro/const1948.htm|title=Constitutia Romaniei, monitorul oficial, constitutia din 1948, constitutia Republicii Populare Romane 1948, Republica Populara Romana|author1=T.A.|author2= Dezibel Media|author3= Romania|date=January 4, 2000}}</ref> Until the collapse of communism in 1989, all the candidates were chosen by the [[Romanian Communist Party]], and civil rights were merely symbolic under this authoritarian regime.<ref>{{cite web|title=A History of the Right to Vote in Romania|url=http://www2.stevenson.ac.uk/comenius/articles/univsuff/ro_db/suff_1b.htm|website=Comenius|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009152036/http://www2.stevenson.ac.uk/comenius/articles/univsuff/ro_db/suff_1b.htm|archive-date=October 9, 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Woman's suffrage denonstration.jpg|thumb|A 1917 demonstration in Petrograd. The plaque says (in Russian): "Without the participation of women, election is not universal!"]]