“The wrong of withholding the privilege of voting from the few who ask it is a slight matter in comparison with the injustice of imposing the duty on the many who neither seek nor wish it.” The National American Woman Suffrage Association was shortly renamed the League of Women Voters, and its purpose of advocating active and unrestricted involvement in government has remained unchanged. Politicians increasingly backed social topics that they thought would appeal to female voters, such as public health and education reforms. According to one research, child mortality rates fell by up to 15% when more American women obtained the right to vote in various areas of the country. Another research discovered a relationship between women's suffrage and increasing school funding and enrolment in the United States. The United Nations Convention on the Political Rights of Women, adopted in 1952, provides that “women shall be entitled to vote in all elections on equal terms with men, without any discrimination.”

Shivangi Ojha

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