A very serious question for the men here at DU:

[Yupster]

191. In history there is something called the "Sin Of Presentism."

It's the sin of judging people of the past by the standards of the present.

So, why did women gain the right to vote in the US in 1920?

Because that's the time that women were getting the right to vote.

Here's the chart of when other countries granted the franchise to women.

•1893 New Zealand
•1902 Australia
•1906 Finland
•1913 Norway
•1915 Denmark
•1917 Canada
•1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia
•1919 Netherlands
•1920 United States
•1921 Sweden
•1928 Britain, Ireland
•1931 Spain
•1944 France
•1945 Italy
•1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan
•1949 China
•1950 India


So why did we grant the right to vote to women in 1920?

Because that's about when it became a big issue to the world. We are right in there with the countries you'd expect us to be in with. No big surprises.