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Women Voting Rights

Bernice Said:

Do you think men made a mistake giving women voting rights?

We Answered:

Are you insane?! Ignorant maybe? Give yourself a little class and save face by not asking questions like this one.

Women fought for something we were entitled to...just because we're women doesn't make us worth any less than men. We're worth just as much as you guys and maybe even more.

Just you wait when Hilary Clinton becomes president!

Micheal Said:

How to write a essay about "Canada WWI--Women Voting rights" 900-1200words?

We Answered:

http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/faq/aboutwomen_…

This site link is the official Canadian gov site for Status of Women Canada. It has alot of info about the question you asked. Hope this helps.

Charlie Said:

Women got voting rights through fire bombings; Blacks got rights through intimidation; what if gays put bombs?

We Answered:

Martin Luther King Jr was a non violent protester, the only intimidation that was being applied was by democrats who didn't want black people to have civil rights. Luckily for the minorities of this country that at least the republicans were looking out for them and not just looking to exploit them.

Andre Said:

What were some changes the Elizabeth Cady Stanton made towards women rights besides voting rights?

We Answered:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_C…

Alicia Said:

How did women get voting rights if the only people who wanted women to vote were women, and they didn't count?

We Answered:

Forget your so-called "survey." Have you ever done a serious legitimate study on the history of women, especially during the Suffragist movement? Then you would know there WERE men throughout history who supported women's rights and supported it of their own free will!

Who, you ask?

Well, John Stuart Mill was one of them. So was Frederick Douglass. So was Richard Pankhurst. There were others, too, like Max Eastman, an American, and the British suffragists Philip Snowden, Laurence Housman and F.W. Pethick-Lawrence. A number of the men involved in the abolitionist movement were supporters of granting the right to vote to women. In 1848, at the Seneca Falls convention for Women's Suffrage, 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiment and committed themselves to enfranchising women. In the UK, there was even an organized group called Men's League for Women's Suffrage!

and here's a list of some other men involved in the suffrage movement...

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/R…

Now on the other hand....did you know there were actually WOMEN who were anti-suffragist, some of them more strident about it than the suffragists they opposed?

Anti-suffragism was a political movement composed MAINLY of women, begun in the late 19th century in order to campaign against women's suffrage in the United States and Britain. It was closely associated with so-called "domestic feminism", the belief that women had the right to only freedom within the home. Some anti-suffragists were conservatives who were primarily concerned about "tradition" and family values, but some female anti-suffragist, however, were radicals and they chose their "anti" position because they felt it was better to just rebel than merely become part of what they felt was an already unfixable corrupt system. They felt they could accomplish more without the vote than with it.

A few notable anti-suffragists?

Mary Augusta Ward, who was the founder of the first anti-suffagist group in the UK. Lady Jersey, Mrs Humphry Ward, Violet Markham, and Hilaire Belloc MP. Another famous UK anti-suffragist? Gertrude Bell, the woman credited for creating the modern state of Iraq. She herself was independent, traveled widely, practised diplomacy and politics in foreign countries, but then she actively sought to deny her own sisters the right to vote in their own land...said they weren't "ready"!

Some anti-suffragists in America?

Kate Gannett Wells, Mary Wilson Thompson and the anarchist Emma Goldman!

Jared Said:

explain the issue briefly in terms of women voting rights in australia?

We Answered:

Women are now allowed to vote in Australia.

Leonard Said:

What was the last US State to grant women voting rights?

We Answered:

The 19th amendment was passed in 1920. At this point women were allowed to vote in all states.

It wasn't until 1925 that American Indians could vote.

The last state to ratify the 19th amendment though was Mississippi in 1984.

It seems to me it could be argued 1925 because Indian women could not vote until then.

Like with all of history there is rarely one clear answer.

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