anti suffrage movement in the US
...remembered, and revered, for their stance against inequality and for managing what many saw as impossible: the freedom to vote for all American adults of all kinds who chose to do so. There was, however, a strong anti-suffrage sentiment in this country during those first decades of the 20th century. Men and women alike shared the view that, not only were women not competent enough to vote, some believed they also hadn’t the right. Mara Mayor, in a piece for the Connecticut Review, entitled "Fears and Fantasies of the anti-Suffragists" details reasons why anti-Suffragists took up their movement. women were considered too weak, physically, to vote (literally, too frail to get to the booth) and were therefore deemed unfit to do so. Francis Parkman, a vocal anti-suffragist and revered historian, compared the burden of the vote on women to the idea of a man "told by his physician to enter at once for a foot-race of boxing match." [2] Here we see that implied physical frailty on women ...