How did the french women get voting right
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Just before the Revolution of 1789, the right to vote was restricted to representatives of the three orders - clergy, nobility, the third estate.
The common people were therefore not allowed to vote!
Between 1789 and 1791, voting was done by indirect census suffrage.
Only the citizens, whose total direct taxes exceeded a certain threshold had the right to vote.
This somewhat limited accessibility to the right to vote to the well-off!
Universal male suffrage was granted on August 11, 1792.
However, the revolutionaries didn't yet considered women as 'full-fledged entities' because they didn't have ‘proper jobs”.
They were 'only' cooking, cleaning and desperately trying to make ends meet while looking after their extensive families!
These 'revolutionary men' ignored that it was the women who marched on Versailles on 5 and 6 October 1789 in order to ask Louis XVI for bread after a poor harvest that resulted in a shortage of flour and the uncontrollable rise of price of bread!
They ignored that it was the women who also forced the king into signing the decrees confirming the abolition of privileges and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen!
They kept regarding these women as passive and non productive citizens!