Women's Equality Day: It has taken us decades to get here

Wangari Mathai.

The right to vote belongs to all citizens, but this wasn't always the case as most countries had denied this cornerstone of democracy to half their population; women.

In 1920, the 19th amendment of the US constitution was ratified to give women the right to vote, which meant women voices being heard at the ballot box after decades of agitating and pushing by women.