Both Presidential Campaigns Working Furiously to Bring Female Voters to Their Candidate’s Side

Presidential Race Continues to Be About Undecided Female Voters

The presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is all about speaking to undecided female voters in five swing states. This explains why both campaigns are fighting fiercely over two issues that emerged from the second debate: equal pay for women in the workplace and contraceptive care. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

From Wikipedia:

Women’s suffrage in the United States, the legal right of women to vote in that country, was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920.

The demand for women’s suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women’s rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women’s suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme. By the time of the first National Women’s Rights Convention in 1850, however, suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement’s activities.

The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 when two competing organizations were formed, one led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other by Lucy Stone. After years of bitter rivalry, they merged in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Anthony as its leading force.