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    Penrose, in his interesting comparison between the Athenians and Spartans, shows how much more sympathetic the Athenians were, than the Spartans. He argues that ‘…in Sparta, the failure to recognise the disability caused by impairment was a harsh form of prejudice…The Athenians allowed disabled veterans and others to be exempted from military service and to collect a pension, whereas no consistent record of exemption is extant from Sparta’ (Penrose, 2015, p. 522).

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    In the late eighteenth century, the western USA and some northern European countries gave women the vote. The full right to vote in Australia came with Federation in 1901. In the UK, it was not until 1928 that women had the same voting rights as men and in Switzerland, not until 1971. Prior to that age restrictions applied (making their voting numbers smaller than men) and various property or rate paying requirements which prevented their suffrage.

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    Lancet 3 February 1891.

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    BMJ, 4 July 1890.

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    BMJ, 18 March 1893.

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