Going to the polls on voting day, many women today do not even think about how long and difficult was the way done by millions of their predecessors.After all, they are sometimes sacrificed everything to be given this opportunity - the right to vote.Women traditionally deprived him, and it is by no means self-evident.Like other freedoms, the right took a long process of development, until it was recognized and enshrined in the Constitution of many developed countries.And this process has reached its apogee relatively recently: scary thought, but still in the 40s of the twentieth century French could not open a bank account without the consent of her husband, and in 1946 she was admitted to the polling station.
In the era of the late Roman Empire, and the woman had inherited property, and this refers to the Roman law.However, the interpretation of Christianity Catholicism made "Daughter of Eve" guilty of original sin.So spread the view that women are by nature emotional, frivolous, silly and just can not manage itself, and needs to be patron - first her father and then her husband.Because of the legal codes of the West European countries disappeared woman's right to own and dispose of property fully.About that, what was the right to vote
Such a powerless position of the "weak" sex lasted until the French Revolution in 1789.Its slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was enthusiastically received by women who actively participated in all the political processes.But with the publication of the main document of the revolution "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen", as well as the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic, they found that these starry slogans do not concern them, but only men.Olympe de Gouges, writer, made in 1791, the "Declaration on the rights of the citizen" - the first feminist manifesto.But the government did not meet half the country's population, on the contrary, all women's associations were banned, and the "second floor" was not even allowed to attend the public events, equating it to the children and the insane.Olympe de Gouges been life on the guillotine.But the French were not alone in their struggle for the right to vote.
Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 publishes in London his work "In Defense of Women's Rights", which proves the need for equality of both sexes.A sufrazhizm - the movement for women's suffrage - was born in the United States.This happened in 1848.In 1870, British women have collected three million signatures on a petition for the right to elect and be elected.They submitted the paper to the Parliament.
But the first country in which women were finally, right to vote, became New Zealand - in 1893.Later, a victory on this issue was reached in Australia (1902), USA (1920), Great Britain (1928).In Russia, the equality of women brought only the October Revolution.
in legal documents of many countries of the Muslim world still contains provisions that a woman is not an independent member of society.In some states, it does not have a passport, being inscribed before her marriage to the document father, and after him - in the passport of her husband.This situation is largely a problem of migrants who live in Western Europe and the United States closed communities.
