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The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues is a bipartisan membership organization within the House of Representatives committed to advancing women's interests in Congress. [1] It was founded by fifteen Congresswomen on April 19, 1977, and was originally known as the Congresswomen's Caucus.
Executive Order 14168, titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" is an executive order issued by Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, [1] the day of his second inauguration as president of the United States.
Jan.26 -- Christopher Barry, professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, discusses the gender gap in U.S. politics. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu on ...
[50] [52] In the early years of women in Congress, such a seat was usually held only until the next general election, and the women retired after that single Congress, thereby becoming a placeholders to finishing elected terms of their husbands. [52] As the years progressed, however, more and more of these widow successors sought reelection.
The number of women who will serve in Congress and governorships mostly held steady, though a slight decline in women elected to the House was the unsurprising outcome of a lackluster showing by ...
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Goodlander was born on November 4, 1986, and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire. [1] [2] She is a member of the Tamposi family, a well-connected prominent political family in New Hampshire; her grandfather, Samuel Tamposi, was a Republican real estate developer who partially owned the Boston Red Sox, and her mother, Betty Tamposi, was a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of ...