As opposed to being charged with blasphemy in country B. You mean like in the Salem trials? What, that was long ago? Europe was still trying people for heresy

As opposed to being charged with blasphemy in country B. You mean like in the Salem trials? What, that was long ago? Europe was still trying people for heresy in the 17th century around the time of the witch trials. The inquisition was still very much alive throughout Europe (and enforcing the death penalty if needed). Galileo came very close to being a heretic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair Then tell me, why Country A...introduced women's voting later than other countries... The US: 1920 --Women can vote (with many states doing so before then) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage_in_the_United_S... The UK: 1928 – Women received the vote on equal terms as men (over the age of 21) as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1928. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage_in_the_United_K... Germany: In Germany, women's suffrage was granted in the new constitution of the Weimar republic in 1919. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#Germany France: Suffrage was extended to women in France by the 21 April 1944 ordinance of the French provisional government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#France