Abby Finkenauer
US Representative from Iowa
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Chase Going Woodhouse
Chase Going Woodhouse, an economics professor-turned-politician, served for two nonconsecutive terms in the US House of Representatives, representing a competitive district spanning eastern Connecticut.
Katharine St. George
During her 18 years in the US House of Representatives, she rose into the GOP leadership because of her fiscal conservatism and commitment to limiting the size of government. Though she spurned the feminist label, St. George became an outspoken advocate for women’s economic equality, coining the phrase “equal pay for equal work.”
Victoria Spartz
Ukrainian-American US Representative from Indiana
Martha Elizabeth Keys
US Representative Martha Elizabeth Keys’s two-term House career provides a window on a transitional moment in the story of women in Congress.
Mary Fallin
Fallin, the first woman in 84 years to represent Oklahoma in Congress and just the second ever to do so, was a leading figure in state politics for more than two decades.
Kay Boyle
20th century American writer
Elizabeth Martínez
Chicana feminist, community organizer, activist, author and educator
Sophie O’Brien
Irish writer and activist
Maurine Neuberger
With her husband, Maurine B. Neuberger was part of a “mediagenic power couple” that together reformed the Oregon Democratic Party and emerged onto the national scene.