January 1, 1919. Map: States grant women the right to vote. While seeking to amend the U.S. Constitution, the women’s suffrage movement also waged a state-by-state campaign. The territory of Wyoming was the first to give women the vote in 1869. Other western states and territories followed.
https://constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html
Suffragettes, or women who campaigned for the right to vote, including Lucy Stone, fought to be protected under the 15th Amendment. Ratified in 1870, the 15th Amendment states that, The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude..
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/constitution_day/heroes/index.asp?article=womensrights
Women Get the Right to Vote. In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed. After years of fighting for equality, women were guaranteed the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone were important figures in the women's rights movement.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/constitution_day/heroes/index.asp?article=womensrights
Certainly, women had not been given the vote by 1914, even after a lot of Suffragette violence. However, some historians argue that, although they could not be seen to give in to Suffragette violence, politicians could not face a return to Suffragette violence after the war, and that is why they gave women the vote.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/votesforwomenrev3.shtml
On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.
http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage
The problem with this argument is that only women who were householders over the age of 30 (6 million women) got the vote in 1918; women over 21 did not get the vote until 1928. Yet the 1918 Representation of the People Act gave the vote to all men over the age of 21 so the war did not bring women equality.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/votesforwomenrev3.shtml
Site search. Four staff networks for people to discuss and consider issues. Women and the vote. Before 1918 no women were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections. In the early 20th century there were two main groups active in the campaign for women's suffrage, a term used to describe the right to vote.
http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/
New Zealand: 1893. Women gained the right to vote in New Zealand, the first country to grant women's suffrage, before the federal elections of 1902. This started a campaign for women's suffrage around the world. Australia: In 1894, women in South Australia were first granted the right to vote. It was another eighteen years before women were permitted to vote federally (that is, Australia-wide). Women obtained the right to vote and stand for election for both houses of Parliament on 16 June 1902.
http://www.answers.com/Q/When_did_women_get_the_right_to_vote
During the war, women served the nation and did men's work in many ways. When they were given the vote in 1918, almost every person who supported the motion in Parliament said that they deserved it because of their conduct during the war - they had proved that they could go to war' with the men.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/votesforwomenrev3.shtml
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. (Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century.) Still, the more established Southern and Eastern states resisted.
http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage
when did women get to vote
Women got to vote in 1920.