We must work to elect more women to The U.S. Congress [View all]

[Tx4obama]

Until we have a higher percentage of females in The U.S. Congress GENDER does matter and the lack of a higher percentage of women Congresswomen can and will affect us all.

Currently there are ONLY 17 female Senators in the The U.S. Senate,
and ONLY 73 female Representatives in The U.S. House.


The Senate

There have been 39 women in the United States Senate since the establishment of that body in 1789. The first woman served in 1922, but women were first elected in number in 1992. As of 2011, 17 of the 100 senators are women.

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Twenty-five female senators have been Democrats while thirteen have been Republicans. Of the seventeen female senators now serving, twelve are Democrats and five are Republicans.

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Current women senators
Since January 2009, there are 17 women serving in the 100-person body (an all-time high), including freshmen senators. For four states, California, Washington, Maine, and New Hampshire, both senators are women. California's current two senators (Boxer and Feinstein) are the first two women to be elected to the U.S. Senate in the same election (in 1992) from the same state. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Senate

Note: ONLY Twenty-three states (out of 50) have been represented by female Senators in the history of The United States!
Blue = Democrat(s), Red = Republican(s). Purple = Both a Democrat and a Republican


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The House

Since the beginning of the 20th century, a number of women have served in the United States House of Representatives. The first woman to be elected to the United States Congress was Jeanette Rankin, a Republican from Montana elected in 1917. 229 women have served in total as of 2009. As of 2012, there are 73 women (constituting 16.6% of all Representatives) serving in the House of Representatives.

Women have been elected to the House of Representatives from (ONLY) 44 of the 50 states in the United States. The states that have not elected a woman to the house are Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Vermont. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives