HIST 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Agnes Macphail, Dorise Nielsen
30 Sep 2016
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Womens vote tied to man in their family and relation to military. Another system where women finally got the formal vote. By late 1920s women had become constitutional and legal persons" able to sit in. Suffrage: 50+ year struggle, 10 year period where it becomes suddenly and done and then 10 years later further legal barriers removed. Barriers are never codified differences (unlike south africa where legal codified racial hierarchy). Legal barriers: before 1912, women had virtually no right to democratic representation, move onto this period, two key women in pre-ww2 errors, one before wwi and another during ww2. Look at informal barriers that make women"s involvement in politics more difficult, not as rigid but more malleable. Informal barriers become weakened when formal barriers fall, but also can become more rigid (reaction to women"s suffrage to lead to backlash against women who prosper in that system).
