Which was the first country to allow women to vote?

The correct answer is New Zealand.

• New Zealand was the first independent nation in the world in which all women had the right to vote. 

Additional Information

• The most recent nations or territories to allow women to participate in national elections are Bhutan, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
• India first extended voting rights to women in the year 1935, but only to those women who were married to a male voter, or having specific literacy qualifications.
• Universal suffrage is allowed in 1950.
• Ecuador was the first Latin American nation to grant women voting rights in 1929, but it allows the franchise only to the literate Ecuadorian women, and voting was not compulsory for women as it was for men.