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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Women and the Right to Vote
Women and the Right to Vote
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Women and the Right to Vote
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In most countries today, people think it is obvious that all adults should have the right to vote in democratic elections.
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But it was not so long ago that women did not have this right.
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Only after a long struggle did women gain the right to vote.
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By the early 19th century, modern democratic forms of government were appearing in the United States, Great Britain, and some European countries.
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In these countries, most adult men had the right to vote in democratic elections.
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Some men were denied this right if they were poor or if they belong to a racial minority group.
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But gradually this right was extended to all men.
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It took much longer for women to gain the right to vote.
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Only in special cases, such as that of a widow who owned land, could a woman be allowed to vote.
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Many men believed that it was not necessary for women to vote because they assumed that the husband should decide on behalf of his wife.
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Some men believed that women did not possess the intelligence or the discipline to vote carefully.
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Some women also believed that women should not be involved in politics, but many others wanted the right to vote.
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By about the year 1850, some women began to organize in an effort to change the laws regarding women and the votes.
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This movement was known as the woman suffrage movement because the word suffrage means voting.
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Leaders such as Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Caddy Stanton brought attention to this issue and persuaded many people that women should vote.
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The first part of the United States to recognize women's right to vote was Wyoming in the year 1869.
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During the following decades, many other states recognize women's right to vote, particularly in the western part of the country where women had a high social status.
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However, the United States was not the first country to recognize women's right to vote.
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At the national level, the first country to recognize women's right to vote was New Zealand in 1893.
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Soon after, Australia also allowed women to vote, and so did the Scandinavian countries of northern Europe.
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But in countries such as the United States, Canada and Great Britain, women could not yet vote.
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Women in those countries struggled to gain the vote.
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For example, in Great Britain, Ameline Pankhurst and her daughters participated in hunger strikes during World War 1/19/14 to 1918.
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Women's work efforts were very important to winning the war, and people's attitudes were increasingly in favor of women having the right to vote.
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Women then gained the right to vote in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.
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Gradually, other democracies around the world also recognize women's right to vote.
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Today it seems difficult to believe that women were not allowed to vote only a few generations ago.
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But there is still progress to be made.
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In most countries, women are underrepresented among political leaders.
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Perhaps the day will soon come when women are elected as often as men.