About.education says that during these years she began her long-term relationship with Katherine Anthony (by 8). She traveled across the United States for the next four years campaigning for women's rights. Rankin also created women's rights legislation and spoke out against child labor. Feeling confident, she ran in 1918 for the U.S. Senate and lost. Despite this loss, she continued to campaign for legislation to promote maternal and child health care. She also campaigned for regulated hours and wages for women workers for two consecutive terms. Rankin campaigned for women's rights, but she was also a lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. As a result of her work, women won the right to vote in 40 states in 1918 and the 19th Amendment was ratified by 3/4 of the states.