United States Leads in Woman Suffrage

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 18, 1913

United States Leads in Woman Suffrage

“WITHIN the year the United States has become for the first time the leading woman-suffrage nation. That rank was previously held by Australia, which has a population of about 5,000,000. Previous to 1912, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, with a combined population of 2,785,000 in 1910, were our suffrage States. In California, with a population of 2,377,000 in 1910, women voted for the first time last fall. Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon, with a population in 1910 of 2,566,000, adopted suffrage amendments. Even with New Zealand, Australasia has not much more than 6,000,000 people. Woman-suffrage Finland has 3,000,000, suffrage Iceland 80,000, the suffrage Isle of Man 55,000. In other countries, as in other States of the United States, woman suffrage is limited. The nine full-suffrage States have now many more than 8,000,000 inhabitants. The women voters of the United States in 1912 nearly doubled their numbers in 1913 and nearly trebled them for 1914.”