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Quiz Entry - updated: 2026.07.02

What year gave women the vote at the federal level in Switzerland?

1971 → tub · cat.

A woman casting a ballot, a cat in a tub — women's suffrage 1971, pegs tub (19) and cat (71).

Swiss men voted to grant women federal suffrage only on 7 February 1971 — strikingly late for Europe (the last canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, held out until 1990). Peg 19 · 71tub · cat: a cat crouched in a bath tub.

From Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | Updated: Jul 02, 2026