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Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers, Sibile Marcellus and Jen Rogers speak with Dr. Deborah Turner, President of the League of Women Voters, about the gender voting gap and why it’s so important for ...
A gender gap in voting typically refers to the difference in the percentage of men and women who vote for a particular candidate. [1] It is calculated by subtracting the percentage of women supporting a candidate from the percentage of men supporting a candidate (e.g., if 55 percent of men support a candidate and 44 percent of women support the same candidate, there is an 11-point gender gap).
History tells us that matters like marriage equality, voting rights, abortion access and campaign finance are often adjudicated through the court system.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
For countries that have their origins in self-governing colonies but later became independent nations in the 20th century, the Colony of New Zealand was the first to acknowledge women's right to vote in 1893, largely due to a movement led by Kate Sheppard. The British protectorate of Cook Islands rendered the same right in 1893 as well. [38]
Learn about the history of voting rights in America, including when women were allowed to vote and why voter access is still an important issue today.
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.