This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed American women the right to vote. But women living in these states and territories achieved suffrage long before it ...

Nationally, women have outpaced men, 53% to 44%, in early voting, and the gap is bigger in key states such as Pennsylvania. But whom they voted for is unknown.

The U.S. became significantly more democratic after women gained the right to vote, and a 2008 review of the academic literature on the relationship between democracy and growth concludes that the ...