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.”
Ukrainian-American US Representative from Indiana
US Representative Martha Elizabeth Keys’s two-term House career provides a window on a transitional moment in the story of women in Congress.
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.
20th century American writer
Chicana feminist, community organizer, activist, author and educator
Irish writer and activist
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.
An aggressive and outspoken Republican, Paula Hawkins sailed into office in a Republican sweep led by victorious presidential candidate Ronald Reagan in 1980. A staunch defender of her ever-changing Florida constituency, she also created a public dialogue on the subject of missing, exploited, and abused children.
US Representative from New Jersey and former naval helicopter pilot