A Centennial of Suffrage: 2013

Gained her position due to the death of her husband - Clyde H. Smith
1st women to serve in both the House of Rep. and the Senate
Former teacher, newspaperwoman, and businesswoman
1930-36: Member of the Republican State Committee
1940: Husband falls ill and requests that she be the one to finish his term in the HOR. Mrs. Smith was then reelected 4 times in her own right.
1943: Served on the Naval Affairs committee
1947: Ran for Senate and was elected. Reelected again in 1954 and 1960.
First woman to become an active entrant in a race to win a major party's presidential nomination.
1950: One of the most noted early challenges to Joseph R. McCarthy's charges of Communists in government with Declaration of Conscience speech
1952: Campaigned for the Vice-Presidency
1963: Rated in a gallop poll as one of the top 4 most admired women in the world

Harriet Taylor Upton

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First women to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee
1928: Led Republican campaigns as an assistant campaign manager

Hattie Caraway

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Appointed to her late husband's seat in the senate in 1931, and confirmed in a special election in 1932, making her the first woman to be elected to senate. She was reelected in 1932 and 1938.
Served on the committee on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses)
1945-1946: Member of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission
1946: Member of the Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

1990-2020

1992 – “Year of the Woman”

6 women elected to Senate:

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· Carol Mosley Braun (D) IL- First African American woman elected to the Senate

· Dianne Feinstein (D) CA

· Pat Murray (D) WA

· Barbara Mikulski(D) MD

· Barbara Boxer (D) CA

· Jocelyn Burdick (D) ND- (not pictured) Only served the remaining 3 months of her husband’s term

Congress:

· Helen Delich Bentley (R) MD

· Beverly Barton Butcher Byron (D) CA

· Eva Clayton (D) NC

· Barbara Rose Collins (D) MI

· Cardiss Collins (D) IL

· Rosa L. DeLauro (D) CT

· Joan Kelly Horn (D) MO

· Nancy Lee Johnson (R) CT

· Marcia Carolyn Kaptur (D) OH

· Barbara Bailey Kenelly (D) CT

· Marilyn Laird Lloyd (D) TN

· Jill Lynette Long (D) IN

· Nita M. Loway (D) NY

· Jan Meyers (R) KS

· Patsy Takemoto Mink (D) HI

· Susan Molinari (R) NY

· Constance A. Morella (R) MD

· Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) DC

· Mary Rose Oakar (D) OH

· Elizabeth J. Patterson (D) SC

· Nancy Pelosi (D) CA

· Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) FL

· Margaret Scafati Roukema (R) NJ

· Patricia Scott Schroeder (D) CO

· Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D) NY

· Olympia Jean Snowe (R) ME

· Jolene Unsoeld (D) WA

· Barbara Farrell Vucanovich (R) NV

· Maxine Waters (D) CA

Women’s Political Organizations were an important factor in the 1992 elections:

NOW, The National Women’s Political Caucus, Emily’s List, The Women’s Campaign Fund, etc…More women supporting women campaigning for office.

** I have the photos of the reps, when I saved them from the US House of Reps. Website, not all of them were .jpgs and they only show up as files. For our board I am printing directly from the site so all the photos are the same size. The site I am printing from is http://history.house.gov/People/Search - women in congress – 102^nd congress.

1993 – Janet Reno: Appointed as the first woman Attorney General by President Clinton.Previously was the first woman to serve as the State Attorney for Dade County, FL from 1978-1993.

1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg (D): Supreme Court Justice appointed by President Clinton

“legal architect of the modern women’s movement” She is a strong voice for gender equality, worker’s rights and separation of church and state.

1997 – Madeline Albright: First Woman Secretary of State

Background in enhancing women’s professional opportunities in international affairs.

2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) NY: The 1^st First Lady to be elected to Senate

Pro-choice, advocate for childcare, reproductive and health care. Co-sponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Restoration Act.

2005- Condoleeza Rice: First African American woman Secretary of State, appointed by George W. Bush. Influential in US Diplomacy and foreign affairs: Supported the expansion of democratic governments, addressing issues such as disease, drug smuggling, human trafficking/human rights issues and foreign nuclear programs and testing.

2007 – Nancy Pelosi (D) CA: First woman Speaker of the House

Focused on strengthening the middle class through job creation, health care, child nutrition and food safety. Led Congress to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

2008- Hillary Rodham Clinton: First woman to win the presidential primary

Focused on universal health-care and clean energy

2009

2009 – Sonia Sotomayor: First Hispanic and the third woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

2010 – Elena Kagan: Changed the gender composition of the US Supreme Court by becoming the third woman serving simultaneously.

2013 – 78 women in the House **List of names and pictures from same website as

20 women in the Senate 1992

2016 – Hillary vs. Condoleeza for President???

2020 – mirror on top of a picture of the White House

Monday, March 4, 2013

1960-1990

1961- Eleanor Roosevelt-Chair of Presidents Commission on the Status of Women

Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the U.S. from 1933-1945 and maintained a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She was a suffragist who worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women. In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Congress. During her time at the United Nations chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. In 1961 JFK appointed her to chair the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.

1964- Martha Griffith-Made sure the Civil Rights Act included women

1966- NOW
Betty Friedan-The Feminine Mystique

Shirley Chisolm-1st African American to run for US President

Shirley Chisholm became the first black congresswoman and for seven terms represented New York State in the House. Chisholm earned Master's degree in elementary education from Columbia University after which she served as director of the Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center from 1953 to 1959 and then as an educational consultant to New York City's Bureau of Child Welfare from 1959 to 1964. In 1969 she became the first black Congresswoman. Chisholm was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1972. Throughout her political career Chisholm fought for education opportunities and social justice. She left congress in 1983 to teach and lecture. She is the author of two books, Unbought and Unbossed (1970) and The Good Fight (1973

1971-National Women's Political Caucus

Gloria Steinem
Congresswoman Bella Abzug
Betty Friedan

1972 -A. Representative Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado) 1st woman in congress for Colorado
Author- 24 years of House Work and the Place is Still a Mess

Patricia Schroeder went to Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of more than 500 men. She earned her J.D. in 1964 and moved to Denver, Colorado with her husband, James. Schroeder worked for the National Labor Relations Board and then Planned Parenthood before her husband in 1972 encouraged her to run as a Democrat to challenge an incumbent Republican for the House seat representing Colorado's First Congressional District. She became the first woman elected to congress from Colorado. The mother of two young children at the time she was elected to the House, Schroeder went on to serve 12 terms, retiring from Congress undefeated in 1997. For a brief period of time in 1986, she ran for President but withdrew for lack of funds despite the fact that she ranked third in a Time magazine poll. Schroeder was the primary backer of the Family and medical Leave Act of 1993. Schroeder is the author of "24 Years of House Work...and the Place Is Still a Mess" (Andrews McMeel, 1998).

B. Phyllis Schlaffly-Author, Republican political activist
Stop the ERA campaign

C. Women's Campaign Fund-Non-partisan PAC created to help women get elected.

D. Jean Westwood- 1st woman Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee

1974- Mary Louise Smith-1st woman Chairperson of the Republican National Committee

1977-Congresswoman Bella Abzug- Appointed by President Jimmy Carter as head of the National Women's Conference

1978- A. Nancy Landon Kassebaum-1^st elected female US Senator, R-Kansas

B. Dianne Feinstein-San Francisco Mayor

1981-Sandra Day O'Connor- 1st woman Supreme Court Justice, appointed by President Ronald Reagan

Sandra Day O’Connor received her degree from Stanford University law school in 1952. She worked for the county attorney for California's San Mateo County for free just get her foot in the door as there were few jobs available for women attorneys at that time. She was soon hired as the deputy county attorney. From 1954 to 1957, O'Connor served as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Masker Center in Frankfurt, Germany. She returned home in 1958 and settled in Arizona. There she first worked in private practice before becoming Arizona’s assistant attorney general for four years, from 1965 to 1969. In 1969, Governor Jack Williams appointed her to the Arizona state senate to fill a vacancy. O'Connor won re-election twice. In 1974 O'Connor ran for the position of judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court. In 1979, she was selected to serve on the state's court of appeals. Two years later, President Ronald Reagan nominated her for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. O'Connor received unanimous approval from the U.S. Senate. She broke new ground for women in the legal field when she was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court. As a justice, O'Connor was as a key swing vote in many important cases, including the upholding of Roe v. Wade. She retired in 2006, after serving for 24 years.

1984-Geraldine Ferraro-1st female Vice-Presidential candidate for a major political party

1985-Emily's List-A political fundraising organization founded by Ellen Malcolm. Purpose is to elect progressive women Democrats to office.

1988- Democratic National Convention-Keynote speaker
Ann Richards-D-Texas, State Treasurer

03/04/13

Hey Ladies,

Upon doing some research for my era, I had some different ideas for how my display would be laid out. I'd like to know what you guys think.

I noticed that while there were far fewer women in politics in the earlier years following the 19th amendment, there were still a quite a few notable females in politics at the time. I was thinking that instead of only highlighting a few notable women of the time, I might also list some women in different areas of government (congress, senate, federal executives, etc.) and their positions as well as a timeframe of their service, while also highlighting some more notable/active public figures in the same manner as I had already planned.

While this might be odd, I was also thinking of including one or two notable men who had played an active role in campaigning for women in office, as I believe the idea of a man willing to campaign for a woman in office was just as revolutionary as women themselves running for office at the time. I believe it would also show that women are not the only ones that can be active in the crusade for their own equality.

Would love your feedback!

Chelsea

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Location

Dear student,
Your request for bulletin board space has been approved. You have bulletin board #2 for the following dates:
Mar 18-24