Finland elects the world's first women MPs
1907 · Event
A year after winning full suffrage — the first in Europe — Finnish women do what no women anywhere have done: nineteen of them take seats in parliament. The Grand Duchy on Russia's edge quietly proves the whole argument; the world's capitals take decades to catch up.
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