Abstract
With the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, American women achieved voting qualifications identical to those of men. It took the British until the summer of 1928. French parliaments in the Third Republic could not pass a suffrage bill in the 1920s and 1930s. During the last year of World War II, 16 women delegates were named to the French Provisional Consultative Assembly that sat in Paris from November 7, 1944, to August 3, 1945. The Ordonnance of April 1944 granted the suffrage to women in advance of the national vote for a Constituent Assembly that designed the Fourth Republic.
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Pamela Brookes, Women at Westminster: An Account of Women in the British Parliament, 1918–1966 (London: Peter Davies, 1967), p. 45.
Pamela M. Graves, Labour Women: Women in British Working-Class Politics, 1918–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 123.
Ibid., p. 51; and Elizabeth Valence, Women in the House: A Study of Women Members of Parliament (London: Athlone, 1979), p. 61.
Louise B. James, “Alice Mary Robertson: Anti-Feminist Congresswoman,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 55 (Winter 1977–78): 454–62.
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Applewhite, H.B. (2015). The First Women Legislators. In: Women Representatives in Britain, France, and the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137525871_4
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