In many parts of the US, women were voting long before August 20, 1920. In 1890, when the Territory of Wyoming applied for statehood, the United States Congress said it would grant the Territory statehood as long as it stopped letting women vote.
The response from Wyoming?
“We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women.”
Congress relented and in 1890, Wyoming became the first and only state where it was legal for women to vote.
The rights women were fighting for included the right to inherit property, be paid for their work rather than having their husbands getting their paycheck and – then as well as now – to be paid on the same pay scale as men.
If you are a young woman, what do you owe your grandmother?
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