The Nineteenth

I found this webpage that documents a lot about women's rights in countries around the world. Where we have advanced over the past 100 years, there are still countries all over that struggle for the bare essential rights we have already started to take for granted. We need to remember that the fight is not over for the world. Vatican City Vatican City is the only remaining country that women cannot vote. And, at this trajectory, never will. As the centre of the Roman Catholic Church, the only people that can vote at all are the cardinals, operating on a religious doctrine. There is a story, fact or fable, that a woman was once about to be ordained as Pope when she delivered a baby on her way. Yet to be confirmed ... or debunked. Afghanistan Ruled by Shi’a Family Law, since 2009, women are not permitted to leave the home. In 2014, women did turn out in record numbers to vote and run for office. Through protests and threats of exile and persecution, they stood together to mak...