Women’s right to vote has time and again been proven to be better for society. Although it was not a guaranteed Constitutional right until 1920, individual states were allowing women to vote as early as the 1860’s. Utah, Wyoming, and Montana were among the first, and the logic behind it was that if women voted, they would vote for candidates and laws to strengthen morality (this was the Wild West, remember). Indeed, the states that allowed women to vote were the ones that passed laws against pritzus, gambling, public drunkenness and various other morality-related laws. Historically, it is women who care enough about what their children were exposed to to get out and do something about it- this is true in both the Jewish and secular worlds. So women’s suffrage is a positive thing. And what does it have to do with women working? The women voting in Wyoming in the 1870s weren’t going out to work, and conversely, plenty of women have worked through the ages to help support their families, even before being granted the right to vote. One has nothing to do with the other. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to live on one income anyway, you generally need both parents working.
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