Now, nearly one hundred years later, in what is likely one of the most insidious political subversions of the recent era, the “devaluation of ‘unpaid’ domestic labour” is laid at the feet of men and their misogynistic and unwavering impulse to oppress women.

Not the suffragists, and century’s worth of feminists who explicitly belittled and demeaned the same work that was —not that long ago— held in the highest esteem.

If not for all the other eloquent points of Janice Fiamengo’s piece, then the mere realisation of the feminine propensity for such covert reversals and subterfuge, along with such practices incapability in sustaining coherent and shared understandings within the already complex and nuanced reality of politics, should be evidence enough that women’s suffrage requires some level of redress.

Not necessarily a full repeal of that right, but some manner of implementable reform that can mediate these issues in how women vote that is in direct conflict with the functioning of said enterprise.