Give me womens suffrage facts/statistics. giving

-The first women’s rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19-20, 1848.

-In 1869 the movement split over disagreements about the 15th Amendment, which granted voting rights to African American men but not women.

-In 1913 Alice Paul organized NAWSA’s first women’s suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The police failed to provide the suffragists with adequate protection, and spectators attacked the marchers. Paul formed a rival suffrage organization, the National Woman’s Party, in 1916.

-In 1916 Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

-In 1917 the National Woman’s Party organized protests outside the White House to pressure President Woodrow Wilson to support women’s suffrage.

-Thirty-three suffragists picketing outside the White House on Nov. 10, 1917, were arrested and jailed. They were fed maggot-infested food, beaten and tortured.

-The Republican Party was viewed as more supportive of women’s suffrage than Democrats until 1916, when both parties publicly supported state suffrage.

-Some 10 million women voted in 1920, a turnout rate of 36%, compared to 68% for men. Women voter turnout rates have gradually increased and exceeded male turnout rates since 1980, when 61.9% of women voted compared to 61.5% of men.

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