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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.
Since women are excluded from combat, Congress concluded that they would not be needed in the event of a draft, and therefore decided not to register them." [ 1 ] Implicit in the obiter dicta of the ruling was to hold valid the statutory restrictions on gender discrimination in assigning combat roles.
Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988), was a Supreme Court of the United States decision that determined the Independent Counsel Act was constitutional. Morrison also set important precedent determining the scope of Congress's ability to encumber the President's authority to remove Officers of the United States from office.
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
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 ...
Ten years ago, women made up less than 19 percent of the U.S. Congress; today, they make up 28 percent. One state legislature has even gone beyond gender parity , with more women than men serving ...
United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that parts of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 were unconstitutional because they exceeded the powers granted to the US Congress under the Commerce Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
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 ...