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Studies have found that around 20% of women in the United States have been victims of rape [77] [78] with many incidents of rape being underreported according to a 2013 study. [79] In 2017, the United States was ranked the world's 9th safest country for women by the New World Wealth research group. [80]
She and her running mate, Arizona Senator John McCain, lost the 2008 United States presidential election to their Democratic challengers, Illinois Senator Barack Obama and Delaware Senator Joe Biden. New York Senator Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be listed as a presidential candidate in every state and territory in the 2008 ...
Under federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [41] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [42] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [43] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [44]
Exit polls from the 2024 U.S. presidential election suggest a 10 percentage point gender gap in votes for Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. While a majority of female U.S. voters ...
Retired to run successfully for the 1948 United States Senate election in Maine, thus becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. Florence Gibbs (1890–1964) [x] Democratic: Georgia's 8th: October 1, 1940: January 3, 1941: Retired Katharine Byron (1903–1976 ...
Pink represents the Women in the United States Senate Pie chart showing female senators in the 119th Congress. Pink is female. There are 26 women currently serving in the United States Senate. This is the highest number of women to have served concurrently in U.S. Senate history. Sixteen are Democrats and ten are Republicans.
As opportunities for women in the US military have increased, the population of female veterans in the US has also grown. Since 2010, the population of female veterans in the United States has ...
As of 2025, 51 women have served as governor of a U.S. state, three as governor of an unincorporated U.S. territory, and two as mayor of the District of Columbia.In January 2025, women have been serving as governor in 12 U.S. states (13 between January 7 and 9, and January 21 and 25; 14 between January 9 and 21), as mayor of the District of Columbia, and as territorial governors of Guam and ...