I don’t like how history is explained in schools usually. That you had men ruling for thousands of years and then boom women could vote. It paints a completely wrong dynamic. And in this explanation women holding power in feudal society is seen as something advanced and modern like.

In feudal Europe power was held by people who were effectively warlords. Then that power became hereditable which is perversion of the logic. Women holding power under such system is not cool and modern but it means that system evolved into something that resembled nothing what built in the first place. That is why ideas of liberal elections were perverted by placing qualifiers on who can vote. To uphold those same structures. It took a long time for men getting their vote, lots of election cycles. Women getting theirs 2 election cycles later is not such an unfathomable leap when you look from greater time distance. Cynical explanation would be that those in power figured out how to cling on power even when general population can participate in elections. ___