Why did not French women obtain the right to vote before 1944?
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SummaryFrance was the first country to establish male universal suffrage but one of the last Western states to institute Universal Suffrage: French women were not granted the right to vote before 1944. Many historians have pointed out this apparent anomaly and have used the idea of “le retard français”, the French delay. International comparisons support this idea
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- One of the recurrent explanations of the late enfranchisement is the weakness of French feminism
- French society as a whole was particularly conservative about the role and status of women
- In the beginning of the 20th century, women's citizenship entered the realms of possibility in France because time and suffragist activities caused prejudices to decrease
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