Timeline of women's suffrage liberty between 1718 and 1772. The Australian Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so. In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the second country in the world to implement both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female
Women in the military by country forces. In December 2015, it was announced that women would be permitted to begin training in autumn 2016 in order to enter all roles by the end of that year. In 2016 a ban on women serving in close combat roles in the British military was lifted by Prime Minister David Cameron. In 2017 the Royal Air Force's ground-fighting force became open to women for the first time, making the RAF the first branch of the British military to open every role to female service personnel. In 2018, women became allowed to apply for all roles in the British military.