Another generation had to pass before the Latin

countries were ready for women's suffrage. Here, far

more than in the nations to the north, the vestiges of
women's traditional inferiority of status lingered"
(Wilkinson, 143-4). The electoral barrier did not
break down in...France [until 1944), Italy (1946),
Switzerland (1971), and Portugal (1976) Paxton, 21).

2 July 1928:
The United Kingdom
grants full equal voting
rights to women.

1929:
-- Romania grants limited suffrage.
-- Women found to be "persons" in
Canada and therefore able to
become members of the Senate.