Women's suffrage: 10 reasons why men opposed votes for women

Influential feminist voted for the voting rights granted to women over the age of 30 in 1918 a century ago.

But until 1917, only a few months before the bill is passed - leading influential people in Congress tried to stop women's voting

"At the moment, we are under women's management and are worried, there is no reason not to change the current situation."

"Women have obvious disadvantages to Congress, I do not know what their hat does.

"Their emotional temperament makes them accountable, but those who are not suitable for sitting in this house in this real world ... or those who are given the great power that the bill gives them"

"At this point there are statistics showing that both the birthrate and the marriage rate are declining.

"The policies that you can take now may cause huge damage to the country's population, and such policies should be retained as well as should be retained."

"One of the biggest features related to this country is men's responsibility to women, I am extremely worried about every step that can mitigate the responsibilities of men."

"Women are very familiar and very weak, are known for doing something new and easily accepting the opinions of others.

"Intuition is much bigger for women than for men, but instincts and instincts are good guidelines, but they are not the best masters for Congress.

"I read their research in a paper, a gentle publication, I learned that the prime minister was intensely described as an ancient fossil.

"What can you say about people lacking such judgment and lack of opinion on actual facts?"

"I say that the fatal logic experienced in the idealism and personal lives of women's thought is superior to men, but when I think about the problems that govern the great nation and consider, I said that every day in these homes these qualities are worthless, but destructive. "

"This is a country of commerce and industry, but it is difficult to imagine that women can manage and manage our business and industry.

"If we adopt women in this House of Representatives, they will legislate the management of the laws of the commercial industry that they do not know anything."

In a booklet discussing women's voting rights, activist Thomas Wentworth Higginson outlines the general reasons for opposing women's elections. Some men do not want women to vote because they do not want to hear women talking about politics. The booklet quotes as a general complaint about women's suffocation as follows: "I do not want to see my wife in town." "Now I will be a sandwich" Tip

Men and women who oppose women's elections have done so for a variety of reasons. Many think that men and women are fundamentally different women should not hurt themselves in a polluted political world. Others think that most women do not want to vote and only a few women will use it. The argument in this discussion is combined with the argument that people should not only give the right to vote for what they consider valuable to voters, while women's elections are combined without racial, educational or class differences It is possible that all women will accept the vote at the same time. This frightened the authorities, especially the Caucasus of the South.

Men and women who oppose women's elections do not necessarily participate in organized campaign campaigns. This proposal suggesting a vote boycott and sexual role change often takes the form of passive prejudice. However, the growing threat to the success of the feminist caused action by some powerful people and some excellent women. Men who break the women's right to vote in the National Assembly are major parties. The Liberal Party generally shows a democratic process more than the Conservative Party, but contains many free allies who believe that the British Empire is more important than women's privileges. He also produced two major anti-feminist leaders, William Gladstone and Herbert Asquis. By contrast, Conservatives are led by escorts of compassionates like Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Salisbury, Arthur Balfour.