Stand Up + Show Up: Here’s Why Women Must Vote

Ladies, listen up. The truth is for more than 40 years women have decided elections. And as we celebrate the 100^th anniversary since the ratification of the 19^th amendment to the United States Constitution giving white women the right to vote, here’s a few facts about women voters and why we are, and must continue to be, a powerful force at the ballot box. 

 

• Women have voted at higher rates than men in every presidential election since 1980.
• Women, especially Black women, helped Barack Obama win the election in 2008 and helped keep him there in 2012.
• It took decades for women to become a major voting force, boosted by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 giving women of color greater voting access.
• Women represent the majority of registered voters in the United States.
• In the 2016 election, women cast nearly 10 million more ballots than men.
• Since 2016, women have become more politically focused than ever before; starting with the 2017 inaugural Women’s March in Washington which marked the biggest single-day protests in U.S. History.
• Women of color are becoming the fastest growing voter group, gaining 13.5% voters between 2000-2017, and Black women stand out as one of the largest voting blocs. Their 55% turnout in 2018 election was 6% above the national average.
• No nominee for either party has every garnered as much female support as Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
• In 2018, 35% of young women voted, a huge increase from 2014, when just 18% of young women voted. This change has made an impact on our politics, changing the demographics of our government on every level bringing issues women care about to the forefront.