Women were finally given the vote in the first general election to be held after the war, but not all of them. What age must a woman have reached in order to vote?

Before the World War One, women were restricted in their employment opportunities.  Many jobs were forbidden to women, their pay was much less than that of men and they were not entitled to vote.  By the war's end life had improved somewhat, but there was still a long way to go before women and men would be considered as equals.