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A 1971 telegram sent by diplomat Archer Blood, decrying the U.S. failure to intervene in genocide by the Pakistani army in Bangladesh. The Dissent Channel is a messaging framework open to Foreign Service Officers and other U.S. citizens employed by the United States Department of State and Agency for International Development (USAID), [a] through which they are invited to express constructive ...
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.
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 ...
Felton was the oldest of four children; her sister, Mary Latimer, also became prominent in women's reforms in the early 20th century. When Felton was 15, her father sent her to live with close relatives in the town of Madison, where she attended a private school within a local Presbyterian church.
In New Hampshire, both major-party candidates were women, so either way a woman would win there — and help break the record for the most women serving simultaneously as governor at one time.
[50] [52] In the early years of women in Congress, such a seat was usually held only until the next general election, and the women retired after that single Congress, thereby becoming a placeholders to finishing elected terms of their husbands. [52] As the years progressed, however, more and more of these widow successors sought reelection.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the highest-ranking GOP woman in the House, is leading a charge to break the record for Republican women serving in the chamber, just six years after a blue wave wiped out ...