Women in the United States gained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it, meeting the requirement of three-fourths of the states. The amendment legally guaranteed women the right to vote nationwide
. The 19th Amendment states that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of sex, effectively granting women suffrage. However, it is important to note that while the amendment granted voting rights to women, many minority women, including Black, Native American, and Asian American women, faced continued discrimination and barriers to voting for decades afterward until further protections were established by laws such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965
. In summary, women officially gained the right to vote in America in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
