Gillibrand makes a last-minute White House push for women’s rights constitutional amendment
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making an all-out push in the waning days of the Biden administration that she believes ...
Raw Story on MSN9d
Republican women annoyed GOP Congress won't let them run committees: report
For the first time since the 114th Republican-led Congress, it appears that there won't be any women leading House committees ...
The Hamilton Spectator9d
Two Virginia women who came to Congress on a mission prepare to leave at a critical moment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Jennifer Wexton roared into Washington six years ago as part of a record wave of women vying for House seats, many on a mission to push ...
The women of the West are making political history — and have been for 130 years
This story was originally published by The 19th. The stereotypical story of the American West conjures images of unforgiving ...
Women’s 2024 In Politics, Business And Sports: Progress And Setbacks
While there were some achievements in sports and a few incremental gains in political representation, the overall trend ...
Where are the women? In CT government they set early records but progress is slow.
At the time 50 years ago, the ranks of women were small in the U.S. Congress, the Connecticut legislature and in various ...
Protesters urging Congress to ‘flush bathroom bigotry’ arrested after sit-in
More than a dozen people were arrested Thursday for protesting Republicans’ push to ban transgender women from using women’s ...
The Conversation18d
Are trans women ‘biologically male’? The answer is complicated
A surprising buzzword in the U.S. Congress these days is “biological ... In fact, opponents of transgender rights in the United States are not really in agreement on what they even mean ...
WTOP News26d
Incoming Congress will have record number of Black lawmakers
The 119 th Congress that will be sworn in ... who have not been represented very often in the United States Senate — and that’s women of color,” said Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer, of ...
The Washington Post27d
Congress has always been weird about the bathrooms, and other places
Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress in 1916 ... story of “12,000,000 loyal colored citizens of the United States,” explaining “these people and their forbears ...