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We asked women at the Brookings Institution to share their thoughts on the 19th Amendment. One hundred years after American women gained the right to vote (on paper), what is the current state of gender equality in America? For more scholarship on this, visit 19A: The Brookings Gender Equality Series.
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Authors
![Stephanie Aaronson Headshot](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ES-20190508_AaronsonHeadshot-e1557327028832.jpg?quality=75&w=250)
Stephanie Aaronson
Senior Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics
- Federal Reserve Board
![Emily Cleffi-Tristani](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/emily-cleffi-tristani.jpg?quality=75&w=200)
Emily Cleffi-Tristani
Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications
- Office of Communications
@EmilyCleffiT
![Christina Kwauk](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/kwaukc_portrait.jpg?quality=75&w=167)
Christina Kwauk
Former Brookings Expert,
Head of Climate and Education
- Unbounded Associates
@CKwauk
![Robin Lewis](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/robin-lewis_cr.jpg?quality=75&w=250)
Robin J. Lewis
Associate Fellow and Senior Research Associate,
Associate Director
- Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS)
@Robin_J_Lewis
![](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sawhilli.jpg?quality=75&w=167)
Isabel V. Sawhill
Senior Fellow Emeritus
- Economic Studies, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity
@isawhill
![mw](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mwelch@brookings.edu_-e1559572399315.jpg?quality=75&w=250)
Morgan Welch
Senior Research Assistant & Project Coordinator
- Center on Children and Families, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Commentary
PodcastReflections on gender equality and the 19th Amendment at 100
August 21, 2020