Despite disproportion. One theory as to why women
Despite the challenges that female politicians have facedthroughout history, many have preserved and paved the way for generations ofwomen after them to increase women’s representation in government. The firstwoman to run for federal office in the United States was women’s suffrageactivist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In her state of New York she won onlytwenty-four of the twelve thousand votes cast. In 1916, the first woman electedto the House of Representatives was Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana.As of 2017, three states, Delaware, Mississippi, and Vermont, have never beenrepresented by a woman in Congress. Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic representativefrom California, was the […]