For American suffragists, winning the right to vote was just the start in securing greater representation for women

The past year has marked a century since women were granted the right to vote in the US with the Nineteenth Amendment. But writes, Mona Morgan-Collins, in the wake of securing the vote, the suffragists and their successors continued to work to forge greater representation for women through defining women’s issues and informing politicians about them, and by mobilizing and informing women voters.