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Interesting. What were the long-term effects of this? Did women get more rights/sooner, compared to other parts of the world? Or was it just "a phase" with litt

Interesting. What were the long-term effects of this? Did women get more rights/sooner, compared to other parts of the world? Or was it just "a phase" with little long-term impact?

danieltillett 9y ago
Yes it did. Australian women were amongst the first in the world to get the right to vote (1901)[1]. 1. South Australia (now a state) was the first country in the world to allow women to vote (in the 1890s) although from memory New Zealand was the first “country" to allow women to vote - I should mention that NZ was as much as country at the time as South Australia (all were British dominions).
chillydawg 9y ago
In the opposite case in modern day USA, black men are much less likely to marry than their peers. The sad cause of this is that such a high proportion of marriage age black men are in prison, that the ones that are not have their pick of all the women left. It turns into this: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/revisiting-the-marriage-supermarket.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/rev...
- danieltillett 9y ago
  Yes marriage doesn’t work whenever the gender demographics gets extreme. My favourite example is the Paraguayan War [1] when almost all the men of Paraguay were killed. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War
  - sparrish 9y ago
    Even though the gender imbalance is long gone from that war, there's still an attitude among Paraguayan women that there aren't enough men around and they'll have to share. Wife and a mistress or two is pretty common still. (Lived there for several years)
- ta101010 9y ago
  Are you sure prison is the cause ? Is the situation any different in Africa ? I wonder if the real cause is penis size. Also maybe the real underlying reason for racism and not skin color or culture.
  - dang 9y ago
    Trolling like this will eventually get your main account banned as well. Please don't vandalize HN.

Interesting. What were the long-term effects of this? Did women get more rights/sooner, compared to other parts of the world? Or was it just "a phase" with little long-term impact?

danieltillett 9y ago

Yes it did. Australian women were amongst the first in the world to get the right to vote (1901)[1]. 1. South Australia (now a state) was the first country in the world to allow women to vote (in the 1890s) although from memory New Zealand was the first “country" to allow women to vote - I should mention that NZ was as much as country at the time as South Australia (all were British dominions).

chillydawg 9y ago

In the opposite case in modern day USA, black men are much less likely to marry than their peers. The sad cause of this is that such a high proportion of marriage age black men are in prison, that the ones that are not have their pick of all the women left. It turns into this: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/revisiting-the-marriage-supermarket.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/rev...

danieltillett 9y ago
Yes marriage doesn’t work whenever the gender demographics gets extreme. My favourite example is the Paraguayan War [1] when almost all the men of Paraguay were killed. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War
- sparrish 9y ago
  Even though the gender imbalance is long gone from that war, there's still an attitude among Paraguayan women that there aren't enough men around and they'll have to share. Wife and a mistress or two is pretty common still. (Lived there for several years)
ta101010 9y ago
Are you sure prison is the cause ? Is the situation any different in Africa ? I wonder if the real cause is penis size. Also maybe the real underlying reason for racism and not skin color or culture.
- dang 9y ago
  Trolling like this will eventually get your main account banned as well. Please don't vandalize HN.