They did their best to spread the word about a woman's right to vote. They talked to other women in order to get them involved , they talked to lawmakers and politicians and they did all of it not only for themselves, but for women everywhere. The whole women's suffrage thing was not just an issue in America, but in almost all free countries. Women everywhere were demanding equal rights. After all of the struggling and protesting and pleading and everything else, American women gained the right to vote in 1920 .
Women everywhere owe a lot to the women who worked so hard.