Cabinet ministers and their wives pledged themselves to the cause , Luce went home and delivered on her promise , aid for Italians who were starving and freezing in their war-impoverished country . Perhaps the Italian Council of Ministers was convinced that they were trading votes for blankets and food . Within a month they decreed the right of suffrage for women twenty-one years of age and over . When the registration lists were completed , women comprised fiftythree percent of the Italian electorate . Before they...











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