About the book
How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women’s (and men’s) voting behavior, and traces how women’s turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as ‘the woman voter’; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.
Related essays
Trumps’s rhetoric on suburban women shows the persistence of gender stereotypes in U.S. elections. Ms magazine and Center for American Women & Politics, November 2020.
The impact of the 19the Amendment. Mischiefs of Faction blog, August 2020.
On the necessity of local and state-level political support for voting rights. Gender Policy Report, University of Minnesota, August 2020.
Turning rights into ballots: The uneven integration of women into electoral politics after suffrage. PS: Political Science & Politics 53(July 2020):479-483.
Predicting how women will vote requires looking beyond gender alone. Newsweek Magazine, January 2020.
Did women vote once they had the opportunity? American Bar Association Insights on Law & Policy 20(1), December 2, 2019.
Was women’s suffrage a failure? Monkey Cage blog, Washington Post, August 26, 2016.
Reviews
Battle for the Ballot: Women’s Suffrage Centennial,” Publishers Weekly
“‘A Century of Votes for Women’ takes a look back to look forward,” FromGirltoGirl blog
Press coverage
The Republican party in Congress could become even more male. The Economist, August 2020
Women won the right to votee 100 years ago. They didn’t start voting differently from men until 1980. FiveThirtyEight.com, August 2020
What voting has and hasn’t done for women. Vox.com, August 2020
What came next. The Source, Washington University in St. Louis, August 2020
The women’s suffrage movement and the gender gap are fixtures of U.S. elections. It didn’t start out that way. Wall Street Journal, July 2020
What the first women voters experienced when registerting for the 1920 election. Smithsonian Magazine, July 2020
Media
Looking Forward: Women voters and American politics. Institute for Women’s Leadership, Marquette, September 14, 2020
Looking Back: Women’s suffrage and American politics. Institute for Women’s Leadership, Marquette, September 14, 2020
Speaking Frankly | Feminism. CBS News Originals, September 10, 2020
100 Years of Women Voting. U.S. Capitol Historical Society / Library of Congress, August 27, 2020
Understanding America: 100 years of women’s suffrage. U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Centers, August 6, 2020
Women voters, 1920-2016 (C-SPAN). Boston Athenaeum, January 30, 2020
100 Years of Women Voting. Library of Congress, November 21, 2019
Interviews
The 19th Amendment and the myth that all women vote the same. ThinkND podcast, October 19, 2020
Waiting for Liberty Podcast. August 18, 2020
After 100 years, there’s still no “woman voter.” Democracy Works podcast, McCourtney Institute, August 2020
A Century of Votes for Women. New Books Network podcast, March 2020
A Century of Votes for Women. All IN (Indiana Public Radio), February 2020
The author of ‘A Century of Votes for Women’ weigh in on what kind of difference the ‘women’s vote’ makes. Newsweek Magazine, January 2020
Women’s voting over 100 years. Niskanen Center Science of Politics podcast, January 2020
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