When did women get the right to vote? The year the 19th Amendment was ratified.

Women are more likely to vote than men, data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University says.

Across all race and ethnicity categories, women are more likely to be registered voters and more likely to show up on Election Day in presidential and non-presidential election years. According to this same data set, women have outperformed men voting at the polls for the whole of the 21st century.

But women haven’t always wielded this much voting power. In fact, for the majority of American history, women were not afforded the right to vote. At the time of the nation’s founding, only white, land-owning men were allowed to vote.

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When did women get the right to vote?

According to the National Archives, the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, officially giving women the right to vote for the first time in American history — largely thanks to early suffragette leaders like Cady Stanton, who helped organize the first women’s rights convention in the United States in 1848 at Seneca Falls, N.Y.

It’s also important to note significant voting rights efforts led by Black women like Sojourner Truth and Mary Church Terrell, who had to fight for their own voting rights since they were largely left out of the mainstream women’s suffrage movement.

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When did women get the right to vote in the United Kingdom?

The path to women's voting rights in the United Kingdom is a little more complicated.

In 1918, the UK Parliament passed the Representation of the People Act, which allowed women to vote — but only if they were over 30 years old and met a property qualification. According to the UK Parliament, this represented only about two thirds of women in the country.

The Representation of the People Act act also expanded voting rights to all men over the age 21, whose voting rights were previously limited by a similar property qualification.

In 1928, Parliament passed the Equal Franchise Act, giving women the same voting rights as men in the UK.

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: When did women get right to vote? A brief history of women's suffrage.