Roughly 100 years ago (Aug. 18), women got the right to vote in the U.S. <\/p>\n
I’m glad women can vote, but I question how we got here. <\/p>\n
Why did women get the right to vote when they were not required to fight in our wars? <\/p>\n
That might sound like a strange question, but there are Supreme Court decisions that clearly tie the two together. I.e., men could vote because men fought in the wars. <\/p>\n
But women got the right to vote without having to fight. Why? <\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong. I want women to vote, and I don’t want them fighting in our wars. But there is a clear contradiction here. How is it reconciled? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roughly 100 years ago (Aug. 18), women got the right to vote in the U.S. I’m glad women can vote, but I question how we got here. Why did women get the right to vote when they were not required to fight in our wars? That might sound like a strange question, but there are … Continue reading “Votes for women”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}