woman her political right curtailed — imposing on her certain conditions before she was allowed to take part in elections (conditions not imposed on man), or restricting her electoral right to purely local elections, such as municipal elections or the election of mukhtars — they number nine, namely: Bolivia, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Portugal, and Syria. In all of them woman attained her rights after the Second World War.
And there are twelve states in which women are denied the enjoyment of the political rights that their sisters have won, whether in full or curtailed, in the other states of the world.
These states are: Afghanistan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Haiti, Jordan, Honduras, Iraq, Lebanon, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, and Abyssinia.
It is worth mentioning that the last two states have denied men, too, the exercise of political rights; hence no parliamentary elections are held in them, and their two kings content themselves with appointing the members of the council outright.
The pioneers... American women voting in one of the states in 1868. Would they believe that, eighty-odd years later, their sisters here are still deprived of this very right?
For fifteen years now the Turkish woman has been voting.
Two countries in the Middle East have granted woman her right: Turkey, and Israel...
She carries two treasures: her baby, and her political right...
A Japanese woman votes.