Should Women Vote?

 Note from the editor: This subject is presently under re-examination.  Consequently the article has been removed.  Only the reference material is left for possibly future use.

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"The modern woman-suffrage movement originated in post-Revolutionary America. In colonial and early-19th century America, as elsewhere in the world, women commonly were regarded as inferior beings. Their children, property, and earnings belonged by law solely to their husbands, and various legal and social barriers made divorce almost unthinkable. Internationally famous clergymen contended during the debate (1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London) that equal status for women was contrary to the will of God. Suffragist were called "the shrieking sisterhood", branded as unfeminine, and accused of immorality, and drunkenness. The American suffragist movement scored its climatic victory shortly after World War II. Among the rights sought currently by feminist groups throughout the world are the right to serve on juries, the right to retain earnings and property after marriage, the right to retain citizenship after marriage to an alien, and the right to equal pay and equal job opportunity."  - 1961 Funk and Wagnalls Standard Reference Encyclopedia.