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During the nineteenth century, women like Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) organized the women’s rights movement, seeking the right to vote and engage in politics.

not only peaceful political activism but acts of civil disobedience and even hunger strikes. Western territories admitted as states were among the first to allow women to vote in state and local elections. Finally, on August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all women the right to vote in elections. Having gotten the vote and the right to run for office, women spent many decades accumulating political power. Early female political pioneers include Gov. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, D-Texas and Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine. Current female politicians come from the length

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Contemporary Issues: Gender Equality