It’s official: Donald Trump is set to become the president of the United States, dashing the hopes of feminists poised to usher in the first woman president in the country's history.

Nearly 100 years since women won the right to vote in the United States, the nation had a chance to elect a woman as its commander-in-chief. Hillary Clinton had already made history by clinching the Democratic nomination, but voters rejected her historic bid for the presidency on Tuesday. That "highest, hardest glass ceiling" remains in place, awaiting the woman who'll shatter it.

Clinton was hopeful in her concession speech: "Someday, someone will."

It took centuries of fearless fighting just to get us this far and, as women face down the prospect of the tough battles ahead, we look to past American women for inspiration. They were faced with entrenched discrimination and, in the beginning, could only claim rights in so far as they related to their husbands. Faced with a rigid power structure they saw possibility. And they didn't back down. They weren't all perfect, but they fought.

Now it's up to the next generation.

These are some of the women we look to for inspiration.