Finland (or as then, the Grand Duchy of Finland) was the first European country to extend the vote to all women, and incidentally to allow full female parliamentary candidature. This first European genuine 'full female universal suffrage' remained when Finland because fully independent in 1917. In 1881 the Isle of Man, a country within the British Isles and a British Crown dependency, attempted to introduce the vote for all women, but after pressure from the UK Home Office the Isle of Man government was forced to dilute its 1880 Election Bill so that the vote was extended only to women rate-payers (i.e., women owners of real estate).   _{Your Comment}