This story is from PBS News Hour by Laura Santhanam and Isabella Isaacs-Thomas:

Voting matters to American women, who prove it by showing up at the polls. In every general election since 1984, they have turned out at slightly higher rates than male voters.

But it took hundreds of years before women in the United States gained the right to participate in the democracy they helped to create. If women were married, society viewed them as accessories to their husbands. They had no say in the policies and laws that shaped their lives, denied the right to go to the ballot box.

Women from all walks of life rallied, protested and petitioned for change and a chance to be heard for decades. Finally, a century ago on this date, the 19th Amendment was ratified, promising millions but not all American women the right to vote — an incomplete victory.

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