Re: female suffrage

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 08:47:55 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 07:38 PM 8/20/01 -0700, Lee wrote:
>
> >can you tell me what
> >industrialized countries allowed women to vote earlier than
> >the U.S. did? (Yes, this is a literal question; I'm not
> >trying to make any point.)
>
> New Zealand, 1893
>
> Australia, 1902 (as long as they weren't aboriginal and not quite human, of
> course)
>
> Finland, 1906...
> USA, Nineteen bloody twenty.
>
> O say, do you hear...?

Actually, Damien, several US states gave women the right to vote (at
least on state elections) prior to all of these...



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