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"Colorado Women are Citizens," circa 1910-1920. Photo courtesy of the Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library. ... Documents selected and interpreted by ; Jennifer Frost, with Leslie Chomic, Marcia Goldstein, Rebecca Hunt, Heidi Voehringer, and the Colorado Coalition for Women's History;
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Women's suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women's disenfranchisement carries a societal cost.
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While Colorado voters ultimately accepted the arguments for extending suffrage to women, however, the Colorado Supreme Court has explicitly rejected similar arguments that equal protection principles demand that non-citizen parents be granted the right to vote in school district elections.
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The Colorado Equal Suffrage Association held its first state convention in Denver in 1881 which began a grass roots effort to enfranchise women. Labor unions, temperance societies and other women's organizations organized around the issue until 1893 when the Colorado legislature referred the matter to the voters.
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Taking lessons from their sisters in Kansas, California and Colorado, suffragists lobbied Progressive legislators until they offered a bill to enfranchise women. They spoke into bullhorns from Model T's and organized public parades, undaunted by taunts or threats to southern womanhood.
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As most other democracies - notably Britain and the United States - did not enfranchise women until after the First World War, women's suffrage quickly became a central element in New Zealand's image as a trail-blazing, progressive 'social laboratory' of the South Pacific.
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Despite all the measures to enfranchise women and ensure equal representation, women still aren't securing many bums on seats. In the London assembly elections, of 151 candidates across all parties, just 52 of the candidates are women.
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As part of the website Real Women Respond to Palin, dozens of women will read from the hundreds of thousands of letters you have sent in over the past two months, which eloquently and convincingly argue why Sarah Palin does not represent you, and is an unprepared and dangerously divisive candidate.
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