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19th Amendment: How far have women in politics come since 1920? 
After the 19th Amendment enshrined women's right to political participation in the US Constitution, women may be having one of their most influential years yet in American politics.

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Nursing, Suffrage, and Social Advocacy.

The article explores the history of suffrage movements among women which have been associated with the development of modern nursing in the U.S. It states that nurse activists and militant suffragists have been credited for the passage of the 19th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution which extended the right to vote to women. It mentions that American women exercised the right to vote for the first time on the election day in 1920.