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The first woman to be elected to Congress was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, in the 1916 House elections; [2] notably, this occurred before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which prohibits the federal government or any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. [3]
Nancy Ruth Mace (born December 4, 1977) is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2021. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 1999, she became the first woman to graduate from the Corps of Cadets program at The Citadel military college in South Carolina.
Stefanik was born in Albany, New York, on July 2, 1984, [1] to Melanie and Kenneth Stefanik. [2] Stefanik states that her father is ethnically Czech and her mother is of Italian ancestry; [3] genealogical records show that her father's Polish [4] family came from western Galicia (at the time part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria), [5] [6] [7] mainly from the then shtetl [8] of Frysztak ...
A 2017 study found that female Republican candidates fare worse in elections than Republican men and Democratic women. [62] A 2020 study found that being promoted to the position of mayor or parliamentarian doubles the probability of divorce for women, but not for men. [63] Women are shown to face more consequences when facing scandals.
The party apparatus also started to make female and minority recruitment a bigger priority, with the House GOP touting that all the Republican candidates who flipped seats in 2020 were women ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For congressional Republicans, this month's elections ushered in the year of the woman — literally. GOP exploring reasons for gender disparity in new Congress Skip to main ...
Mayra Nohemi Flores (born January 1, 1986) is an American politician who represented Texas's 34th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2022 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first female Mexican-born member of the House.
Miller announced her candidacy to represent Illinois's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in the 2020 elections to succeed retiring incumbent John Shimkus. [8] She won the Republican Party nomination, [9] the real contest in Illinois's most Republican district, and won the general election with over 70% of ...