Excerpt from an interesting article: "A 1916 article in the Ladies’ Home Journal presented the potential significance of the women’s vote: “Four million women will have the privilege to vote for a President of the United States this year… These four million women represent twelve states, which cast ninety-one ballots in the electoral college which elects the President. As a President must receive two hundred and sixty-six electoral-college votes necessary to a choice, the twelve equal-suffrage states represent little more than one-third of the total necessary to a choice. At the last Presidential election, in 1912, just one-half, six, of the present total of states gave the privilege to women to vote, and those states cast only thirty-seven electoral votes… "
That’s not true because the first congresswoman was elected in 1917
I stand corrected.
Excerpt from an interesting article: "A 1916 article in the Ladies’ Home Journal presented the potential significance of the women’s vote: “Four million women will have the privilege to vote for a President of the United States this year… These four million women represent twelve states, which cast ninety-one ballots in the electoral college which elects the President. As a President must receive two hundred and sixty-six electoral-college votes necessary to a choice, the twelve equal-suffrage states represent little more than one-third of the total necessary to a choice. At the last Presidential election, in 1912, just one-half, six, of the present total of states gave the privilege to women to vote, and those states cast only thirty-seven electoral votes… "
https://library.whitman.edu/blog/presidential-election-1916/