08/26/2026
Women's Equality Day is observed annually on August 26, commemorating women's right to vote throughout the United States. Women were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was added, stating that the federal government did not have the right to deny the right to vote based on an individual's s*x.
Wyoming was a pioneer in women's voting rights, passing the first territorial suffrage law in 1869. When Wyoming became a state in 1890, it became the first official U.S. state where women had the right to vote.