Bret L asked:
In Australia, the country took a definite leftward swing when female
suffrage was enacted.
In America, the effects were slightly more subtle, but the question
lingers. Are women capable of rejecting a promise of security for an
assurance of liberty? I don't know.
Not according to John Lott:
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/W...uff112707.html
"Academics have long pondered why the government started growing precisely when
it did. The federal government, aside from periods of wartime, consumed about 2
percent to 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) up until World War I. It
was the first war that the government spending didn't go all the way back down
to its pre-war levels, and then, in the 1920s, non-military federal spending
began steadily climbing. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal - often
viewed as the genesis of big government - really just continued an earlier
trend. What changed before Roosevelt came to power that explains the growth of
government? The answer is women's suffrage."