I was just researching for my social inequality paper, and I meant to just do a quick overview of some of the events in history that have helped to shape the atmosphere of inequality that has been institutionalized and normalized in our country today with regards to race and gender specifically, and I got a little off track. I was researching women's history in the U.S. and stumbled upon a list of some impressive political ladies in the U.S. I don't know anything about some of them except that they were the first to achieve whatever they did. Here's the list:
Jeanette Rankin, Montana, 1917: first woman in house of reps
Shirley Chisholm, 1968: first black woman elected to house of reps
Hattie Caraway, 1933: first woman elected to senate
1925 first female governors elected (Texas and somewhere else)
Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member (under FDR)
Patricia Roberts Harris (under carter), first black woman in cabinet
Sandra Day O’Connor, 1981, (under Reagan) first Supreme Court Justice
Nancy Pelosi!
Because everyday is women's history day!
Posted by lib at December 6, 2006 05:13 PM