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Women in Congress spotlight challenge of legislating as a new mother. Sarah Fortinsky. June 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM. A bipartisan effort to let new mothers vote by proxy after giving birth is putting a ...
Both women, if elected, would be the only pro-abortion rights OB-GYN physicians in Congress. Currently, Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., are the only OB-GYNs in ...
Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. [1] In total, 376 women have been U.S. representatives and seven more have been non-voting delegates.
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
e. Kamala Harris is the highest-ranking woman to serve in a Cabinet as Vice President of the United States. Madeleine Albright (left), Condoleezza Rice (center), and Hillary Clinton (right) are the highest-ranking women to lead a federal executive department; each held the post of Secretary of State. The Cabinet of the United States, which is ...
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. [2] Its founding co-chairs were Representatives ...
One in 10 women say the right to abortion is the most important issue determining their vote, according to a survey published last week by KFF, a health care research and policy organization.
Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...