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Women Appointed to Presidential Cabinets - Produced by the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics from Rutgers University. Retrieved May 4, 2019. Women Members Who Became Cabinet Members and United States Diplomats - Provided by the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian. Part of the History, Art ...
Bhutto was also the first of only two non-hereditary female world leaders who gave birth to a child while serving in office, the other being Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand. [7] The longest-tenured female non-hereditary head of government is Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. She served as the country's prime minister from June 1996 to July 2001 and ...
They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party. [9] Former Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross was a candidate for vice president at the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Her name was mentioned as a potential candidate as early as 1927, and the possibility of her ...
American political hostesses (1 C, 27 P) M. ... Pages in category "American women in politics" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
The five new women were Democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska. Hirono was the first Asian-American woman and first Buddhist in the Senate, and Baldwin was the first openly gay person in the Senate.
First female member Political party of first female member Years with female members American Samoa: 1 0 1 Amata Radewagen: Republican 2015–present District of Columbia: 1 0 1 Eleanor Holmes Norton: Democratic 1991–present Guam: 0 1 1 Madeleine Bordallo: Democratic 2003–2019 Hawaii Territory: 0 1 1 Elizabeth P. Farrington [a] Republican ...
See Category:American women in business, Category:American women in politics. Jewel Freeman Graham (1925–2015), educator, social worker, second black woman to head the YWCA; Zipporah Michelbacher Cohen (1853–1944), American civic leader, president Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Association in Richmond, Virginia
Leader of a political party with seats in a provincial legislature – Alexa McDonough (Nova Scotia New Democratic Party) – 1980 [44] [45] [46] Leader of a political party at the federal level – Kathryn Cholette – 1988 [47] Leader of a political party with representation in the House of Commons – Audrey McLaughlin – 1989 [48]