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Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to Washington and Changed the Nation (Revised and Updated)
by Ilene Cooper (Author) and Elizabeth Baddely (Illustrator)
Booktalk: For the first 128 years of America’s history, only men served in the Senate and House of Representatives. All that changed in January 1917 when Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress. From the women’s suffrage movement to the 2018 election, this update highlights influential and diverse female leaders who opened doors for women in politics. Women featured include Nancy Pelosi (the first woman Speaker of the House), Margaret Chase Smith (the first woman elected to the Senate), Patsy Mink (the first woman of color to serve in the House), and newcomers like Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
Snippet: Did your parents or relatives leave you an inheritance? Sorry–that automatically becomes your husband’s property.
Not married? Well, you might be able to keep your own money . . . but you’ll have a hard time earning any. There are only a few jobs open to women. You can be a teacher, perhaps, or a seamstress. And with no husband and no children to take care of, many people wil look down on you. You’ll be called an “old maid.”
Oh, and one more thing. You will not be able to vote.
That’s right. Until 1920, there was no national law that guaranteed all women in the United States the right to vote.
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