Women will hold close to one-fourth of the seats in Congress next month … and women turn out to vote at higher rates than men. It’s worth remembering that a century ago the big dispute was whether women should even have a vote. Suffragists persuaded some states to open the ballot to women … but by 1918 had turned their effort into amending the FEDERAL constitution, to cover the whole country.Elaine Weiss has written The Woman’s Hour … a fast-moving chronicle of the struggle among women’s advocates, corporate lobbyists and white supremacists.