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With women having the ability to vote, I think it would have been interesting to track votes by gender and if a wife's vote was the same or opposite as her husband. Did females double the number of votes or was their a clear difference between what women found as important issues vs. the men? -- Rose Ferguson | With women having the ability to vote, I think it would have been interesting to track votes by gender and if a wife's vote was the same or opposite as her husband. Did females double the number of votes or was their a clear difference between what women found as important issues vs. the men? -- Rose Ferguson | ||
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| + | I found Alice Hamilton’s essay against laws that apply to only both sexes very interesting and actually pretty persuasive. It would be risky to assume that if the law was equal that society would be. Were the proponents of this legislation willing to face the time period when society hadn’t caught up to the law. – Cat Debelius | ||