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[1] [2] On November 6, 2018, four additional Arab Americans, all of whom are female, were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Ilhan Omar, Donna Shalala, and Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members.
Sheinelle Jones, journalist and news anchor for NBC News and MSNBC; Gayle King, journalist, television personality, co-anchor of CBS This Morning; Don Lemon, journalist, author, CNN anchor [5] Craig Melvin, news anchor for NBC News and MSNBC; Curt Menefee, host of Fox NFL Sunday; Michelle Miller, national correspondent for CBS News
Mary Rose Oakar in 1977 became the first Arab-American woman elected to Congress. The gym of the House of Representatives (with the exception of its swimming pool) first opened to women in 1985, the gym having previously been male-only. The swimming pool opened to women in 2009, the pool having previously been male-only. [15]
Zainab Salbi, Baghdad-born Iraqi, co-founder and president of Women for Women International Donna Shalala , Lebanese, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1993–2001) Chris Sununu , Lebanese-Palestinian, Governor of New Hampshire (R) (2017–), son of Governor John H. Sununu
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Pages in category "African-American women journalists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 211 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By this time, women reporters, though a minority, had become common and no longer regarded as a novelty, and the competition had become harder: in 1913, Stockholms Dagblad made a record by having seven female co-workers, and the same year, the Swedish Publicists' Association founded the De kvinnliga journalisternas stipendiefond to finance ...
Although women are gaining more opportunities in public office, 68% of Arab women in political life now are dissatisfied with the current level of female political participation. [72]: 677–683 Women want to continue to progress and eventually hold key decision-making positions. Female candidates also have to put gender issues second and ...