{"id":1077,"date":"2026-08-09T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/comment-on-the-j-s-mills-ideas-on-women-suffrage-upsc-psir-2021-1305\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:44","slug":"comment-on-the-j-s-mills-ideas-on-women-suffrage-upsc-psir-2021-1305","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-the-j-s-mills-ideas-on-women-suffrage-upsc-psir-2021-1305\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on the J. S. Mill&#8217;s ideas on women suffrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Mill<\/b> = earliest major male advocate of women\u2019s vote <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> sex no basis for political rights<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> restricted-franchise century <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> his stand = radical democratic intervention<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>vote tied to liberty <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> defend own rights \/ stand on own feet \/ reject being \u201ctaken care of\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> exclusion shown as relic of old \u201cmight was right\u201d order, unfit for modern age <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> capability proven (Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, Margaret of Austria) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> utilitarian necessity: no progress while half the talent is shut out <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> matched by practice (MP; 1866 petition, 1500+ signatures, House of Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>the older defence <b class=\"pq-sc\">Mill<\/b> overturns \u2014 sex as a ground for exclusion \/ women merely \u201ctaken care of\u201d \/ \u201cmight was right\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> set aside as pre-modern<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> women\u2019s vote = a liberal right + a condition of wider human development<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> equal right joined to social progress <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> half of society\u2019s talent freed for public life<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[40],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[56],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1077","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-40","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-western-political-thought","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1077\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}