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

1971 → tub · cat.

Swiss women won the vote in federal elections only on 7 February 1971, when the (male-only) electorate finally approved it — a dozen years after rejecting the same measure in 1959, and strikingly late for Western Europe. Direct democracy cut both ways: because every such reform needed a male majority, change came slowly, and the last holdout canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, was forced to admit women to its cantonal votes only by a Federal Court ruling in 1990. Peg 19 · 71 → tub · cat: a cat crouched in a bath tub.

Go deeper:

• The introduction of women's suffrage — SWI swissinfo.ch — the Swiss public broadcaster on why the country was so late (1971).
• Women's suffrage in Switzerland — Wikipedia — the 1971 federal vote and Appenzell Innerrhoden's 1990 holdout.