From history - an early outcome of women's suffrage in the USA: reduced infant mortality

When recently watching this YouTube video, I found that the first woman elected to the US Congress (Jeannette Rankin) was instrumental in helping to obtain federal funding for education and health centres which helped reduce infant mortality in the USA. The successful Act was based on one Congresswoman Rankin had unsuccessfully proposed earlier (no doubt men felt . . . "uncomfortable" voting for a woman's idea), and passage came about through leveraging off women's' votes ("If you don't support this, no woman will vote for you"- a century later, issues are not so clear cut).

After eight years, the Act was allowed to lapse (although most of its provisions were incorporated into the Social Security Act a few years after that), with predominantly male doctors (along with frenzied anti-communist/anti-socialist nutjobs) being a key factor, on the grounds that it undermined their prestige and another organisation run by men could take the work over . . . so lives didn't matter, their arrogance and paternalism did. (Paediatric doctors supported the bill, and split to form their own association as a result.)