How much do you know about women's suffrage?

Question

Take a look at this timeline:

http://www.dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html

Is there anything here that stands out to you? Any thoughts? Was this information something you already were familiar with? Women: after reading this, how did it make you feel?

(This pertains to women's suffrage in the United States.) I would love to hear about suffrage movements in other countries, so if you can share what you know, please do!

Jackal: lol! I can't believe there are so many women (college educated women, too!) who don't even know what that means.

Dave B.: thanks I will do that!

If you read my question accurately you will see that I am talking about women's suffrage in the UNITED STATES. (One of the answers here said it was only "ten years" between men and women getting the same voting rights, which is not true.) Another answer (Celtish) said that men helped women get voting rights, some did, yes, but obviously it wasn't an easy thing to accomplish. And men did have voting rights- women and blacks were the last to have the same voting rights as men.

Fraxinus: thanks- that was very interesting!

Answer 1

That is a brilliant outline of the history of American women's suffrage. Asking how much we know about it as hard to gauge - the History of Women's Suffrage runs to six volumes in the series - there is a lot to know. There is a briefer list in UK:
http://www.studystack.com/studytable-18447.

Britain's suffrage movement is remembered most people from seeing pictures of Emmeline Pankhust being arrested, Emily Davidson throwing herself in front of the King's horse and tales of debutantes presented at Court, courtseying to the King saying, "Votes for women, your majesty". Women chained themselves to the railings of Parliament, and were forcibly fed in prison where they endured physical abuse. They built their movement on the shoulders of reformers like Aphra Behn, Lady Mary Wortley Monegue, Caroline herschel, Mary Wollsteonecraft Mary Somervill and Elizabth and Millicent Fawcett and too many others to list.

British women won the equal vote with men on 2nd July 1928.
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm

Answer 2

Interesting, the overall theory was that women would vote the same way their husbands did. Yeah I know, that is funny but was a true belief by many of the time period. So why give them the right to vote if they would just vote the same way their husbands do? We know know and I think we knew back around 1900 that women had minds of their own regarding politics and other issues. Heck a know a cute old couple that he is a Republican and she is a stead fast Democrat. They are cute and take care of each other so well for being in their mid 80's. But they really do prove the fact that not all woman agree and go along with what their husbands to when it comes to politics. I like that website. It's to the point, gives the dates and what was going on yet does not have a so much information that you get sick of reading it. Yep we allowed black people to be free but did not give women the right to vote. Also look at a time line of when the Black men were given the right compared to women. That is interesting and rather telling as well.

Answer 3

I was aware of the majority of it, except the key points that women first lost suffrage in a few states and had to work decades to get it back! This is a good timeline about American women's suffrage as well: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html

I've encouraged schools and libraries and parents to use the materials at the National Women's History Project, to help educate young people about the missing history of American Women's suffrage, International Women's Day, American Black history, as well as American Hispanic History: http://www.nwhp.org/

If you want to find out how much is missing from American history about lots of different women in many different fields, try taking this quiz: http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/historyquiz.php

oh and just what doesn't sound like more misandry to some of these posters, other than, "men are the best"? lol

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Answer 5

what i found most interesting about the timeline was the way it ducked out of addressing the issues posed by the utah experiment with women's suffrage.

to simplify massively (but probably not unfairly) the women of utah were granted suffrage as a result of state pressure because it was hoped that they would vote en masse against polygynist policies and policymakers. when the women wouldn't vote the way they were supposed to, their vote was taken away.

i'm certainly not surprised that winning suffrage for women took so long, or was such a mighty struggle: governments hate having the electorate interfere with their policymaking.

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Answer 7

First of all it is not "womens" suffrage. The suffragettes were fighting for voting rights for men AND women at a time when neither men nor women could vote unless they owned property. And it was not a "womens" movement. It was a movement of and supported by men AND women.

And the asker's link is to a feministic website and so is not even-handed.

Sorry, tera. But you know I'm an equalist and so I'm not with you on this one.

@ the doc - The quote "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could." is IMHO referring not to men per se but to humankind in general.

@ tera - As far as the suffragettes are concerned I believe the movement began in Wales and the northern towns of Brit at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. I could be wrong?

Answer 8

What stands out to me is that this timeline is still not included in most K-12 history textbooks.

The proof is the vast quantity of people (both males and females) who erroneously believe that Susan B. Anthony was totally responsible and that the fight happened within a time frame of a dozen years or so.

Answer 9

There was only ten years between men & women getting the vote.

Answer 10

"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could."

Sound like misandry to me.

"That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up -- the harsh tide of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend."

Sounds like more misandry and shaming language to me.

No wonder women's suffrage got knocked back at first.