sufferin' for suffrage
I got an anonymous comment in regard to women being called Mrs *husband's name*, which started me on an internet search for Lady Musgrave and anti-suffrage. It turns out that back in the day, there were women against women's rights! I feel like I could write a thesis on this, so I'll keep it simple (stupid!). Suffrage is the civil right to vote. Anti-women's suffrage groups were formed by women in the early 20th century. I wasn't able to find the sources of a lot of information I read, so I can't vouch for its credibility, but here is a quote by Lady Musgrave outlining the argument of anti-suffragettes (depending on what website you look at, this is either Lady Musgrave's original quote, or her re-quoting of another anti-suffragette, Lady Jersey):
"Put not this additional burden upon us," she pleaded, as "women were not equal to men in endurance or nervous energy, and (she thought she might say on the whole) in intellect."
Two informative, yet conflicting, sites are here and here.
My search also led me to a list at Wikipedia* of countries without women's suffrage:
"Some countries do not extend suffrage to women, or extend it differently from that extended to men (this list does not include countries where neither men nor women have suffrage):
Bhutan -- One vote per family in village-level elections
Brunei
Lebanon -- Proof of education required for women, not required for men. Voting compulsory for men, optional for women.
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait -- But voted in 2005 to introduce suffrage for women older than 21 (to take effect in the 2007 national elections)."
* I intended for this link to go here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage, but it automatically diverts to the generic 'Women' definition.
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