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Women have had the right to vote for 100 years. Here's why that vote matters this election.

Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesIt took decades longer until women became a major voting bloc, after women of color, notably Black women, gained greater voting access with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Women voters are expected to play a key role in 2020, as they have made strides over the past four years since President Donald Trump's election.

Now, women are the center of the electorate. Candidates try to court the women vote and election experts discuss how to appeal to women voters. For the past 40 years,than men in every presidential election and women represent the majority of registered voters. In the 2016 election, women cast nearly 10 million more ballots than men did.

In a similar vein, Hillary Clinton's defeat delivered a gut-wrenching blow to everyone who had hoped to achieve a political milestone with the country's first female president.

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We can’t interpret rights mentioned in the Constitution as being “granted” to us, but as us always having these God-given rights and when an amendment is passed, the Constitution only recognizes our rights and that the government it formed is there to protect our rights.

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