This is where Bro is travelling to tomorrow. Fortunately it's a paid trip. I'm not big on going to places where they try to control you. But hey, I'm going to Dubai in two weeks, and my excuse is that they will give women the right to vote next year. That is something to celebrate. I think. They are only about 100 years late!
PS from Wikipedia:
The Swiss referendum on women's suffrage was held on 1 February 1959. The majority of Switzerland's men voted no, however in some cantons the vote was given to women.[17] Switzerland was one of the last Western democracies (the other being Liechtenstein) to allow women to vote. Women did not gain the right to vote in federal elections until 1973.
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In Finland women were given the right to vote in 1906! Only a few more than one hundred years after Sweden had to "surrendered" Finland to Russia, and 11 years before Finland declared herself independent of "the-big-bad-eastern-country-that-is-so...-do-you-have-a-coin-to-put-in-for-those-sorry-souls?
Well I was taught in school that Sweden was first with 1919. What bollocks that was!
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