We had a similar phenomenon in the US, with the "frontier" territories being among the first places to allow women to vote (at the local level), years before US

We had a similar phenomenon in the US, with the "frontier" territories being among the first places to allow women to vote (at the local level), years before US Constitution was ammended to make it nation-wide. https://constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html https://constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html