100 years of women's suffrage

The USA could learn a lot from the UK.

Especially when it comes to Women's Suffrage.
We started talking about it in the 1803's but it wouldn't really be taken seriously until the 1870's. WS started to be legislated at a Federal level in 1920 but it would take decades longer for any real acceptance.

My mom was the first female in her lineage that went to college & joined the workforce. This was in the 1960's! I've always proud of her for rocking the boat.

Seriously?
Just can't fathom why something so basic can be stonewalled for so damn long.

I knew it was bad, but not that bad!
Thanks Mandy & Jack for getting me motivated to look this up and read about it.

 

Thats just one of a bzillion good reasons.

 

Some of the history of women's suffrage in Brazil:
The presidential decree of 1932 was sanctioned after much struggle and political appeal, but it was divided by parts. The vote allowed in the decree was restricted to married women, with the authorization of husbands, and widows and unmarried women with their own income. The barriers were totally eliminated only in 1934. In 1946, a new law came to predict the mandatory voting also for women, which until then was a right, but not a duty.
But until we got to those terms, things went very slowly. The discussion about the vote only reached the Brazilian Congress in 1891, but was completely rejected: most of the deputies, alleging the inferiority of the woman, warned of a supposed danger that the female vote would entail the preservation of the Brazilian family.

That is history, but until now women are yet to conquer their rights in real life.

 

Actually in the USA west, women were leaders in politics and first spearheaded social services.

Guess what they did and how they became powerful? Madams. The first female governor was a madam(retired). They were decades ahead of the rest of the country and were a powerful force in the west.

 

Actually she wasn’t a madam but she was funded and backed by one.

 

Some of the arguments against women's sufferage were bizarre.

1. Women would be corrupted by politics and chivalry would die out
2. If women became involved in politics, they would stop marrying, having children, and the human race would die out
3. Women were emotional creatures, and incapable of making a sound political decision.

 

All is not smooth decisions and betterment of mankind with decisions instigated by females in politics either. One political movement instigated and spurred by the American female was prohibition. Leading to the most violent crime wave in us history, well funded organized crime, loss of tax revenue, and countless deaths from unregulated homemade hooch.

Just saying that not everything turns out or is the best idea just because it was brought from female leadership. No one is impervious to political stumbling blocks, or poor choices.

Another example is the censorship crusade in the 80s. Screaming for ways to control swearing and content in music, had the very opposite effect. It led to some of the nastiest, tasteless, and overtly blatant foul music ever recorded...and made it popular.

I do wish they would go after something as a whole that wasn’t so ethically fueled, and more on the lines of gender equality. Such as ensuring equal pay, higher punishment for domestic violence, and financial support DURING marriage. The last one would be hard to enforce, but if more females had the financial freedom to leave a bad relationship when it went bad, they may just leave a destructive partner.

 

Good shout @Nicoftime, I'd also say the outrage over certain computer games over the years has just increased exposure and boosted sales.

The original Grand Theft Auto was, frankly, crap. But all of us young lads on the playground wanted it (and got it) if not for the infamy it probably wouldn't have gotten a sequel.

Saying that, I'm glad it did because I think the later ones are great.

 

There is so much talk, especially lately, about voting party lines. Whether it’s Republicans supporting the president, or democrats rallying to block...if females as a whole voted gender lines(and perhaps swayed a few of their partners), they could literally change the country.

It really is amazing that it hasn’t happened yet, you would think a mass Facebook post or news event could lead to rounding up the collective masses into action.

 

Most of the time my other half just asks me who I'm voting for and does the same.

I live in an area where you could put Osama Bin Laden in the right coloured rosette and he'd get elected though.

 

This is an example of how far we are from treating females as equals in the work place.

Teachers, typically a gender neutral position, often have a different set of rules and expectations as their male counterparts.
1. Male teachers send children to the office and their judgement isn’t questioned, females have to explain. If the matter is about harassment or sexual, they are told “boys will be boys”
2. If a student received a failing grade from a female teacher, administration may ask them to change their grade to a passing one, where they would never ask a male teacher.
3. Inappropriate behavior by men is tolerated by all, but the female teachers have to remain silent or risk faculty shunning.

All of this in what most would describe as a very liberal environment. If this is happening here, what is happening in corporate and more male friendly environments?

I don’t have a daughter, but shudder to think of some of the crap she would have to tolerate as a female in the workplace that I have just never had to endure.

 

@cagedbysocks,you haven't looked at the government lately have you .some of those women in there haven't got the brains god gave a rock.

 

Ignorance knows no gender lines, a male politician recently stated he was against births on the 9th month. Either 1. He didn’t know that is the natural gestation period. 2. He accidentally said births instead of abortion...which isn’t done unless something is fatally wrong with the baby or the mother.

There should be some sort of test to pass before running for elected positions lol

 

Politics aside, I believe that this is the birth of the word: Hysterical.

The feeling (of leading men) was (is?!) that women have ungovernable emotional excess and so would become unreasonable while making important decisions.

'Hysterical' is a word constructed around the Greek word 'Hustera' [anglicized 'Hyster'] for womb (uterus). It is strictly meant for the feminine.
Sure, in modern times it has come to include guys & even to denote something 'funny' ... but the root is all about women and how they can't be trusted.

I refuse to use that word in conversation ... at least in how it was meant to be used.
A clinical discussion is different.

 

The actual “cure” hysteria was manual manipulation. It was also the reason vibrators were invented and were patented as such. Doctors would use them instead of their hands to alleviate the symptoms of a hysterical woman.

When they found a safe way to mass produce them(the first models were fairly dangerous) women stopped going to the doctor for it.

 

That is far out
Thank heavens for vibrators

 

PLEASE let this start soon!

 

Yes, but only partly. When women first had the vote in UK it was age 30+ only. And prior to 1918 there hadn't been universal suffrage for men either: had been subject to (e.g. property) requirements.

 

Chaste politicians are scarcer than rocking horse shit! The main qualification is bonking 101