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Scientific Articles
- Ramirez, F. O., Soyal, Y., & Shanahan, S. (1997). The changing logic of political citizenship: Cross-national acquisition of women’s suffrage rights. American Sociological Review, 62(5), 735–745.
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October 19th is the celebration of the 88th anniversary of the first-time women were able to vote in Spain. On November 19th, 1933, general elections considered for the first-time women’s suffrage. Women’s suffrage had been recognized earlier in 1931. On October 1st of that year the Cortes debated and finally voted in favour of granting the right to vote to Spanish women.
While some feminists as Victoria Kent defended the exclusion of women (considered too influential) on defence of Republic over women’s suffrage in the general courts, Clara Campoamor had been struggling to achieve the women’s suffrage. On the October 1st during the debate she made an historical speech addressed to those who were reluctant to give the right to vote to women: “You have the right that the law has given you, the law that you made, but you do not have the fundamental natural right, which is based on respect for every human being, and what you do is hold power; let the woman manifest and you will see how that power cannot continue to stop it.”
As it is mentioned in the largest and most cited scientific contributions on this topic, women’s suffrage overcame politics towards inclusion and a new conception of citizenship emerged.
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This article “The Women’s Right to Vote” needed more scientific evidence. We support the women’s right to vote in Spain. It took so long for women to gain the right to vote in Spain because there were three main groups that all had polarizing beliefs. the article, “The divergent aims of the struggle for women’s suffrage in Spain” by Marta Vargas states, “All three groups were united by the development of strategies which contested male-dominated discourses and spaces in the public sphere, but were ultimately divided by their aims. Their ideological incompatibilities explain why these groups were unable to agree on a common strategy and why the campaign in support of the vote for women failed.” The right to vote is an essential human right and a way to share your values. Although women have been able to vote in Spain for several decades, women were not always allowed to exercise this right. Women’s votes are important in determining the outcomes of election. The article, “Gender, presidential elections and public policy: Making women’s votes matter” by BC Burrell, states “women as a political force as they have come not only to exceed men in their voting numbers but also in their turnout rate.” Women’s voices are very important and giving them the right to vote matters. The election results are affected by the women’s right to vote and without the women’s right to vote the election results would be affected and not reflective of every citizen’s voice.