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The Representation of the People Act granted women over 30 the right to vote, as long as they were married to or a member of Local Government Register. It also extended menâs suffrage to the right for all men to vote over the age of 21, and abolished most property qualifications for men. Women were granted suffrage equal to men in 1928 under the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise Act) 1928. The age for women to vote was lowered to 21, and property qualifications reduced to the same as men, at this point barely notable.
Then a member of parliament, Mill argued that women deserve the right to vote, though his proposal to replace the term man with person in the second Reform Bill of 1867 was greeted with laughter in the House of Commons and defeated by 76 to 196 votes.n Africa, women generally got the right to vote along with men through universal suffrage â Liberia (1947), Uganda (1958) and Nigeria (1960). In many countries in the Middle East universal suffrage was acquired after the Second World War, although in others, such as Kuwait, suffrage is very limited.