From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 23:36:01 MDT
>From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
>Damien writes
>
> >> 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
> > Finland, 1906...
> > USA, Nineteen bloody twenty. [1920]
>
>No! It can't be so! Thirty-three years late! Tch, tch, tch.
>
>Thanks for the research. By the way, here is some of my own:
>
>Nation Population in 1893
>
>New Zealand .7 million
>Australia 3 million
>Finland 3 million
>U.S. 70 bloody million
>
>Hmm. I wonder if that makes any difference.
I think the really interesting question (though I'm admittedly too lazy to
look into it) would be to see how those populations break down by gender.
My guess would be that the earlier a state enfranchised its women, the
smaller was the ratio of women to men. It's one thing to enfranchise a
previously alienated voting block which constitutes a small minority of the
voting population. It's quite another to do it if that block will become
the voting majority.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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