--- title: Women's Equality Day: 95 Years After Suffrage, Still a Long Way to Go description: There's still plenty of room for progress 95 years after women got the right to vote canonical: https://time.com/4010645/womens-equality-day/ author: Heather Jones article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-26T15:21:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:25.082Z og:title: This Graphic Shows Why We Still Need Women’s Equality Day og:description: There's still plenty of room for progress 95 years after women got the right to vote og:url: https://time.com/4010645/womens-equality-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Graphic Shows Why We Still Need Women’s Equality Day twitter:description: There's still plenty of room for progress 95 years after women got the right to vote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Graphic Shows Why We Still Need Women’s Equality Day > Sponsored content. 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That victory came after decades of activism by suffrage activists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott. The 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was passed by Congress in 1919, and was ratified by the states in 1920—but not without some drama. By March of 1920, 35 states had approved the 19th amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds needed to pass. Many of the southern states were opposed to women’s suffrage, and the vote came down to Tennessee. Tennessee’s state legislature was divided 48-48 on whether women should be allowed the vote, but that tie was broken by 24-year old lawmaker [Harry Burn.](http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/ratification-tn.html) He had [apparently received a letter from his mother](http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment) urging him to “be a good boy” and vote for women’s rights. Ninety-five years later, women are voting more than men but hold political office in much smaller numbers. While women have outstripped men in voting booths since 1980, women still make up just about 20-25% of elected officials at the state and federal level. Check out this graphic to see a more detailed breakdown of how women are represented in politics 95 years after they got the right to vote. Much of the data has been collected by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.  _Read next:_ [_The Day Women Went on Strike_](http://time.com/4008060/women-strike-equality-1970/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Download TIME’s mobile app for iOS to have your world explained wherever you go_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-mobile/id328218429) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4010645/womens-equality-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4010645/womens-equality-day/"},"headline":"This Graphic Shows Why We Still Need Women’s Equality Day","datePublished":"2015-08-26T15:21:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:25.082Z","description":"There's still plenty of room for progress 95 years after women got the right to vote","url":"https://time.com/4010645/womens-equality-day/","keywords":["Living","feminism","women"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Heather Jones","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/heather-jones/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4010645/womens-equality-day/","name":"This Graphic Shows Why We Still Need Women’s Equality Day"}}]}] ```