weren't things better in the olden days when women couldn't vote?
370722
Egotistical Males should be shot,   Women have just as much of a voice as men, and we have the right to express it.
434943
By far the most important laws passed in the 1950s were written after the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in which the Court ruled that publis schools could NOT be segregated.  After that decision there were a plethora of cases and laws passed that opened the doors to integration in schools, movie theaters, universities, swimming pools, golf courses, mortuaries, bus stations, etc...\n\n\nIncidentally, women got the right to vote in 1920--NOT the 1950s.
801389
Women's movement stretched when they felt their rights were violated why they could not congregate in groups or on the street...it was not tolerated or allowed.\n\nThe Wig party in Congress showed a more stronger approach not to associate women in Congress when their was none, it was opposed to hide the indifference in voting and yet it stirred a great talk amongst the ladies in the 1800's and that talk would eventually lead to Susan B Anthony giving us our great Flag that Women could do things that were accepted by Man and that was the turning point of women in America that would take charge when the Men went to War and Women stayed at home and started working Man Jobs to keep the economy rolling. They excelled better than Men in most cases and the path was set for good and would never be broken Even after the War, women were tossed back at home when our Soldiers came back from the War, but determined and strong the Women's movement started to accelerate and there was no more housewife to get, she was part of America's turn around and that is a fact that lives on today!
264540
but iamgirl, what if the female president was so craptacular that we never got a good one elected because more people became biased against the ability of a woman to hold that position? i'd rather wait for a good one, but if it were two candidates who were about equal, i would vote for the woman instead. unless both candidates were absolutely awful, then i would want to man so women didnt get more misrepresnted.
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Women could negotiate ALL financial matters for the household. They could not vote and could NOT be citizens if their father did not acknowledge their birth. If he did not, they were adopted into the prostitute guilds and had no rights at all. This was also true of male children. Women could, and did, own property.
588786
I think its the 19th amedment that gave women the right to vote
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It's more valid today than it was then.  So yes.\n\nIt was a recognition that women were not children.\n\nAnd look earlier in history for your first suffragists (suffragettes is prejorative).  \n\nThe conversation started in England with contemporaries of Jane Austen.\n\nAnd contrary to what the second answerer here states, it was also a recognition that women were getting educated and NOT necessarily married.
792324
1919 for Belgian women to vote.\nCheck out this site for more:\nhttp://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm
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believe that we have degraded since the 50"s and early 60"s. think that is the last time America stood together on life issues. there was not family fall out like now. think people tried to do what was right even when it was hard. man tried to provide and make households survive while woman were trying to be thee best to be a mother not 100 different things and then a mother. (no way intended as a slam meaning trying to be a worker teacher home maker taxi driver sister daughter wife then mother is very hard. and not far back in the 50S most woman stayed at home and had the ability to be th mother they dreamed of. ) we treated our kids different as the future not as a necessity or interruption.
861124
The first state to allow women to vote was Wyoning in 1880's.  Then the whole U.S.A. allowed them to vote in 1920.
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Giving women the right to vote universally in the United States brought a unity and parity to our society that up to that point had not been experienced. Those many detractors said the opposite would happen, women's suffrage did more uniting than separating.\n\nOne of the failures might be Prohibition which was driven by the Temperance Movement which of course was backed by women.\n\nStill, the right to vote should be universal and it is rather sad it took until the early 20th Century for America to, as a nation, come to that conclusion.
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The problem with revolutionaries is that they are good at tearing things down, but lousy at building new and better institutions to replace them with.\n\nA lot of things are better: property rights, voting rights, and access to birth control are all positive result of the women's movement.\n\nA few things are slightly worse: before, women had to raise a family even if they would rather have a career.  Now, even if a woman would rather stay home and raise her children, she probably has to work to help make ends meet.  She still only has one choice, it's just a different one from the one women had before.\n\nThis is because when 2 incomes became the norm, the economy adjusted so that you need 2 incomes to buy the house and the car that 1 income used to buy.  \n\nWe still have a ways to go to have a just and equitable society.
1153010
Yes, I think it time women took control of the Equal Rights. AND, remember, when you ask us out you pay the way, and, you better respect us in the morning! ;-D
385181
men did!  women did not act back then so they would usually choose younger men or men who have not hit puberty yet to make them seem more like women.
165015
I think in our times the strengths and talents of women are more in demand. I think women are better at this moment in history.
106860
because the old clock is ticking louder and louder the older women get, unfortunately women havea finite time to reproduce, too bad men don't have the same issue, if it were the case, men would be running around looking for wives and stalking girlfriends
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I don't know why a girl would ask this question... But I'm desperately trying to see it from your side, and I don't know how. I know that women are sometimes not going to vote for the best person, I know I don't, because they think oh, that guys cute or whatever, but I also feel that someday a woman will be in high office around here, and that would be a huge step for the country, even though she'd probably be assassinated like all the rest of the good ones. I just don't understand why you would revoke their right to vote... It would be like revoking the African American's right to vote and only counting them as 1/4 of a person again. It would be such an unprogressive decision that I don't think America would stand for it even if people were to act on it....\nThis is a VERY good question!!!!