"Women could inherit. Women could run their husbands' businesses. Women could vote regarding their minister. And as early as the 1630s, women could vote for their political representatives."
I'd always assumed that women's participation in church elections, particularly, was a much later development. I've seen the question crop up on various discussion forums over the past few years, but I've never seen it answered. It appears not to have been any sort of feminist thing, but a Puritan, i.e., a Reformed thing. And of course I had no idea that colonial women could vote for political representatives, either. The question regarding that then becomes, When did they lose that privilege? Veddy interestink schtuff. Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 12/04/2002 07:30:00 PM
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