Women's suffrage in Austria

While men had gained the right to vote in the years of 1861 until 1907, women were explicitly excluded from political participation since the February Patent in 1861.

Women's organisations that existed since the German revolutions of 1848–1849 were focusing on improving educational and career opportunities as well as labour rights.

[3] Still during the war, in a parliamentary assembly on 30 May 1917, Social Democrat Karl Seitz demanded to treat women as equal citizens.

Article 9 of the reform mentioned that suffrage for the election of the Austrian Parliament should be universal and without making a difference between genders.

Social Democrat Karl Renner drafted the law and he later recalled that he tried to frame women's suffrage as obvious and not to place too much attention on the topic.

[5][6] Until 1930, women and men voted with envelopes in different colors, which made it possible to analyse political preferences according to gender.