A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country

by Ilene Cooper

Hardcover, 2014

Library's review

This engaging informational text describes how women have participated in our House and Senate over the decades. Given that female representation in government is still low, these representatives’ and senators’ stories are particularly inspiring! Appendices, Bibliography, Websites.

Publication

Harry N. Abrams (2014), Edition: Illustrated, 144 pages

Description

For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly covers more than a century of U.S. history in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of female leaders who opened doors for women in politics as well as the nation as a whole.

Language

Original language

English

Pages

144

Physical description

144 p.; 10 inches

ISBN

1419710362 / 9781419710360

DDC/MDS

320.082

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