Problem: What would be the most accurate statement on the history of women's suffrage? Almost every country adopted women's suffrage at different times in the 20th century, but virtually no one had extended to voting rights to women before the 20th century. Virtually every nation was well on the way to women's suffrage by the mid-19th century. The American and West European nations were the first ones to extend votes to women, before Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific (Australia, New Zealand)