In 1917, three years before the 19th Amendment authorized a woman’s right to vote nationally,women’s suffrage was ratified on the state level in New York. The hard-won achievement arrived after 50 years of marches, protests and fundraising, according to The New York Times,much to the chagrin of anti-suffragists who argued that, once a woman got the right to vote, “political gossip would cause her to neglect the home, forget to mend our clothes and burn the biscuits.