Where Woman Is... a Human Being

There recently appeared, from the Department of Public Information of the United Nations, a booklet entitled "Woman's Political Rights over 56 Years," containing facts about the countries in which woman has been granted her political right in full, those in which she has been granted it curtailed, and those in which the rights of man are still reserved to the male alone — as though by "man" were meant only men.

The states in which woman enjoys her full right number fifty. In 16 of them woman attained her rights between the First and Second World Wars, namely: Australia, Austria, Byelorussia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Holland, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Sweden, Turkey, the Ukraine, Russia, and the United States. In 34 of them woman attained her rights between the Second World War and this present year, namely: Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Ceylon, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Liberia, Mongolia, Panama, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Siam, England, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.

As for the states which gave

There is a pleasure in casting a vote — its signs show on the face of this Russian woman, who has come to enjoy her right.

The women of New York demonstrate in 1917, demanding their right.

Might this be the way to win rights?

And have our own women's conferences brought forth anything but soirées and parties?

They have turned away from the cares of this world, but the vote is a sacred right, and they exercise it... Italian nuns casting their ballots.

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