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