Learn about the historic moment when women got the right to vote in the U.S. Explore the timeline of women's rights in the U.S. and the women suffrage movement leading to the 19th Amendment.

By the time the United States ratified the nineteenth amendment, it lagged behind several other nations. Most of Eastern and Northern Europe had already recognized women’s right to vote in 1920.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That’s the amendment that gave women the right to vote.

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the 26th state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920.

They are among 19 artists, none identifying as male, whose artworks comprise an exhibit celebrating the centennial of the U.S. Constitution’s 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.