“Fittingly, the Liberal candidate to whom Maxwell gave her support, Jacob Bright, was a prominent advocate of women’s suffrage”
https://twitter.com/TheVictCommons/status/1368942724074856450
“event was widely recorded in the press, with Yorkshire Post reporting that ‘a woman actually voted!’ Taking a hostile view, it suggested that the polling clerk should have ignored Maxwell’s claim when she appeared to vote, ‘as he would have ignored that of a child 10 yrs old’.”
“Just 5 months earlier, the Commons had rejected – by 196 votes to 75 – John Stuart Mill’s proposal to extend the franchise to women by substituting the word ‘person’ for man in the 1867 Reform Act.”
An appropriate use of gender neutral terminology in legislation...
An appropriate use of gender neutral terminology in legislation...
“George Denman, Liberal MP & leading barrister, had raised the possibility that in using the word ‘man’ rather than ‘male persons’, the 1867 Act did in fact confer the franchise on women..because under an 1850 Act any reference to ‘man’ was also deemed to include women”
It’s amazing how men have historically got away with saying as regards legislation both:
- “for ‘man’ also read ‘woman’”
- and its opposite: “for ‘man’ do not read ‘woman’”
- “for ‘man’ also read ‘woman’”
- and its opposite: “for ‘man’ do not read ‘woman’”
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