Settler colony or prisoner colony?

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:45:31PM -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Two of the Anglo settler colonies were among the earliest to grant
> women suffrage.
>
> 1893:  New Zealand (the first country in the world to grant women the
> equal right to vote)
> 1901:  Australia
>
> Did the male power elite in these two countries have demographic
> concerns or other reasons that gave women there an edge?
>

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