[Buddha-l] Conze's Memoirs

[Christopher Fynn]

Joanna,

You forgot:

1971 - Switzerland


- Chris


jkirk wrote:
> How about this? at the time he was writing, did women in the
> "western world" have the vote yet? For half of his lifetime
> (1904-1979) women had just barely begun to get the vote, so if he
> wasn't a feminist, no surprise:
> 
> Timeline of women getting the vote:
> 1869 - Wyoming Territory in the USA is the first place in the
> world to give votes to women. 
> 1893 - New Zealand is the first country to give women the vote. 
> 1906 - Finland is the first country in Europe to give women the
> vote. 
> 1917 - Russia 
> 1918 -  Germany, Canada, Austria. 
> 1920 - The USA, but not Native American women.
> 1925 - Italy 
> 1928 - United Kingdom (full), Ireland 
> 1930 - South Africa , but only to white women.
> 1931 - Spain 
> 1932 - Brazil 
> 1944 - France 
> 1945 - Italy 
> 
> As for democracy--it still has a bad name because of the ways it
> has been perverted.
> 
> Cheers, Joanna
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