How did the women's suffrage movement end?

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In the 21st century most countries allow women to vote. In Saudi Arabia women were allowed to vote in municipal elections for the first time in 2015. The United Nations Convention on the Political Rights of Women, adopted in 1952, provides that “women shall be entitled to vote in all elections on equal terms with men, without any discrimination.”