#4. The Supreme Court Upholds The Affordable Care Act –As a result, insurers must cover contraception for women without requiring a copay. According to Planned Parenthood, the APA will result in savings of up to $600 in savings annually for individual women. The Supreme Court’s decision also shows a federal commitment to making sure women have access to drugs that are used to treat many medical conditions in addition to preventing pregnancy.

#3. New Hampshire Makes History By Electing First-Ever All-Women Delegation – With the November 6 election, New Hampshire became the first state to have its executive and all of its national representatives be female. Newly elected Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) and Reps. Carol Shea-Porter (D) and Ann McLane Kuster (D) joined sitting U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Kelly Ayotte (R).

#2. Women Win More Seats In Congress- Thanks to victories in the Nov. 6 congressional elections, women now hold 81 of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and a groundbreaking 20 percent of the Senate is now female. That’s still much less than 50 percent, but the additional seats do make this a historic year. For perhaps the first time ever, there were enough women in the Senate that there was a line for the bathroom. (Read how we’d furnish a hypothetical expanded Senate ladies room.)

#1. Single Women Elect The President – “Barack Obama owes his re-election victory to the unmarried women,” according to research by the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action fund, the Guardian reported. The data showed that single women made up 23 percent of Americans who turned out to vote on Nov. 6, and 67 percent of them cast their ballot for Obama.