Good morning on this muddled Monday.

One hundred years ago, women won the right to vote in New York.

“We think of it as a simple wave-that-banner, raise-that-picket, but it was very complicated politically,” said Elaine Weiss, the author of “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.”

The country’s first women’s rights convention, organized by the suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, was in 1848 in upstate Seneca Falls, N.Y. But it wasn’t until 1917 when women here won the right to vote — a breakthrough 70 years and three generations in the making.

A few of the women who led the way:

Louisine Havemeyer was an art collector whose celebrated collection can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her husband ran an enormously lucrative sugar business in Brooklyn, and Ms. Havemeyer used the fortune to help fund the suffrage movement.

“She doesn’t just write the check, but is out there on the barricade,” Ms. Weiss said.

In 1917, World War I was going on, and women were questioning how the United States could be fighting to make the world safe for democracy when not all Americans could vote. Ms. Havemeyer, a big fund-raiser for the war, said, “I can’t ask for money for a war for democracy, when women who demand true democracy at home are thrown in prison.” (She was referring to Alice Paul and other suffragists who persevered after being jailed and tortured.)