This was an argument in late 19th century Belgium when universal suffrage was discussed. Catholics supported it because they thought it would bring all the women to vote for them, since women were such an important element of the parish, and that priests had such influence on them. Socialists opposed it because they thought women wouldn't vote for a worker's cause. It was enacted in 1919. Turns out, women's universal suffrage changed absolutely nothing in the ballot. Opinion at the time was, they voted the way their husband voted or told them to. There might be some truth in this given society at the time, although I think the main reason is that gender is an artifical boundary that doesn't actually exist in political thinking. If women voted like their husband, that's probably because they shared their conditions, not because they were compelled to. The main determinants of voting are class, money, power, and the values resulting of those factors. Not ge...