Women celebrated the 75th anniversary of winning the right to vote on August 26, 1995.
Women constitute over half of the population in America.
Despite this, women are severely underrepresented in politics. Twenty-one percent of all state legislators in 1995 were women. A record 84 women held statewide elected office in 1995. Forty-two of the 50 states had at least one women serving in statewide constitutional office. In 1995, nine of the 50 states, women held at least half of the statewide constitutional offices.