Women's suffrage

The movement for women's suffrage, led by suffragists (commonly called suffragettes), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of all discrimination, for example due to race), which was considered too radical.

Countries without women's suffrage

Some countries do not extend suffrage to women, or extend it differently from that extended to men (this list does not include countries where neither men nor women have suffrage):

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• Bhutan -- One vote per family in village-level elections
• Brunei
• Lebanon -- Proof of education required for women, not required for men. Voting compulsory for men, optional for women.
• Saudi Arabia
• Kuwait -- But voted in 2005 to introduce suffrage for women older than 21 (to take effect in the 2007 national elections) http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8173.