Women's roles

Women rights & Countries

100

What year did women gain the right to vote in America? (estimate)

1920

200

How many countries do you think women still don't have right to vote? (estimate)

1 or 2 (Vatican City and Eritrea) 

300

Saudi Arabia was the last country to allow women to vote, estimate what year the right was granted to them? 

2015

women's roles in the 15th century

100

For a noble woman, what two virtues made them marriable? 

Status and Purity

200

What was the most important thing a women had to do (their duty) in their lives?

Bear children, especially sons

300

What was the ideal women? (Name a few characteristics)

Obedient, silent, chaste, pure, devoted to her family and husband...

women in the 21st century?

100

what percentage of Americans believe love to be the most important reason for marriage? (estimate)

88%

200

What percentage of women work today? (estimate)

57.5% (compared to 68% of working men)

300

what is the average age women get married today? (estimate)

28.6 years old, compared to 17-21 in 1600's