Title: why were women not allowed to vote? | Yahoo Answers
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why were women not allowed to vote?
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Content: After 1787, women were able to vote only in New Jersey. Women continued to vote in New Jersey until 1807, when male legislators officially outlawed woman suffrage. The 15th ammendment stated that you could not deny the right to vote due to race but said nothing about denying the right to vote based on sex. ...Show more
Anonymous
1 decade ago
Because they weren't recognised as 'persons' in law. Instead, they were treated like children. Many of the rights on which women in Canada rely today are the results of legal actions taken by a few for the benefit of many. LEAF’s Persons Day Breakfasts, held in communities across the country every October, celebrate these legal victories, commencing with the 1929 decision of the highest court of the land that women are “persons” under the law. Five women—Judge Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards—and their lawyer, Newton Rowell, took this case all the way to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain. The decision, which was handed down on October 18, 1929, stated in part: “The word ‘person’ obviously must include women as well as men.