In 1890 Wyoming became the first state to allow women's suffrage (the right to vote). Shortly thereafter, the Idaho, Colorado, and Utah also allowed women the right to vote. Perhaps cowboys, miners, and loggers were more enlightened than their eastern brethren in states like Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Using the information in the table above, and the ideas you learned in Comparative advantage form a different hypothesis that helps to explain why the four western states were the first to allow women the right to vote.