What came next

Photo caption: Women […] teach other women how to vote, 1936. (Photo courtesy of Kheel Center, Cornell University Library). Article by Leslie Gibson McCarthy.

Women earned the right to vote, but what kind of impact did they have? Political scientists and Arts & Sciences alumni Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder analyze 100 years of election history

On Aug. 18, 1920, the news that the Tennessee state legislature had voted to ratify the 19^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex — was a cause for great celebration by women who had stood on the shoulders of their mothers, their aunts and their grandmothers, finishing a fight that had begun some 70 years earlier in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

A great celebration … followed by “now what? […]

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