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We should see more women running for office and winning. Texas women are active politically. They vote. In the 2020 presidential election, 6.3 million Texas women voted, compared with 5.6 million men.
Only 270 voters a day cast ballots at the huge University of Texas at Arlington, compared to 1,500 in deep-red Keller. (Tarrant County College Southeast Campus did have a turnout of about 500 ...
“It’s empowering for all of us women working to make sure we have progressive advances in this rural part of Texas.” There appears to be more excitement for this election in Lubbock, a city ...
Since women were first elected to the Texas Legislature in the 38th Session, women have comprised on average 8.5% of the Texas Legislature, with a low of 0.5% in 1923 and 1927 (excluding 1925 and 1937 when no women were elected to either chamber) and a high of 26.1% in 2021. Since the 38th Session, 8.7% of the House's 150 members have been ...
Beginning in September 2021, one of the country's most restrictive abortion bans went into effect in Texas, banning the procedure after fetal cardiac activity could be detected, or about six week ...
That is an entire profession where women are not hired or paid fairly compared to men. Hall will face Fort Worth Democrat Rayna Glasser in the fall in that mostly Republican district.
The Texas Conference for Women is a nonprofit, nonpartisan leadership conference for women of all ages and backgrounds. The first annual conference was held in 2000 in Austin, Texas as a one-day event consisting of keynote addresses and breakout sessions led by experts in the fields of business, philanthropy, health, finance, media and professional development.
After the Texas primary in 1918, women became more politically active and started attending party conventions. [72] In August 1918, 233 different Democratic county conventions chose to support women's suffrage in Texas. [72] Cunningham began to lobby the United States Congress on a federal suffrage amendment.