Posted on: Thursday December 3, 2015
One of the goals for our new exhibit “Nice Women Don’t Want the Vote”, about the 100th anniversary of the right to vote for women in Manitoba, was to elicit visitors’ opinions about the vote for women and women’s rights today, and display these opinions in the exhibit itself. In just over three weeks we’ve put up over 150 comment cards on the exhibit wall. We asked visitors to respond to their choice of three statements and here are some results:
The “Nice Women Don’t Want the Vote” exhibit.
If you could say one thing to a Suffragist from 100 years ago, what would it be?
What is one issue facing Canadian women today that has yet to be resolved?
What is one issue facing women today that has yet to be resolved?
I want to vote because…
Dr. Roland Sawatzky
Curator of History
Roland Sawatzky joined The Manitoba Museum in 2011. He received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Winnipeg, M.A. in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina, and Ph.D. in Archaeology…
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