[extropy-chat] women allowed to vote in the land/s of the free

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Aug 26 16:18:09 UTC 2005


1893: New Zealand grants equal voting rights to women.

1901: Women in Australia get the vote, with some restrictions.

1902: Australia grants more voting rights to women.

1919: Woman suffrage is granted in Belarus, Luxemburg and Ukraine.

1920: On August 26, a constitutional amendment is adopted when the state of 
Tennessee ratifies it, granting full woman suffrage in all states of the 
United States. [puff, pant]

=========

It's easy to forget how comparatively recently all these kinds of changes 
happened...




More information about the extropy-chat mailing list