I'm always amazed at how recently women were considered people and allowed to vote. It's especially interesting to look at it on a global scale. There are still two places women can't vote: Brunei (it has an absolute monarchy and no one vote there) and the Vatican (the priests control everything there and women cannot be priests). The last country to finally allow women to vote was Saudi Arabia and that happened in 2011.
Goodreads says:
An inspiring journey of women's struggles and victories around the globe.
Citizen She! tracks the global fight for women’s suffrage from the first pioneers in the eighteenth century to the heroines of today, from American Lucretia Mott to Egypt’s Huda Sha’arawi to China’s Qui Jin. What does it mean to have a vote, and why did women have to fight so hard to get one? How did they fight for it? And why are they still fighting in many countries around the globe? In illuminating the global struggle for women’s rights, the book shows us how far we’ve come–and that there is a lot left to fight for.
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