Existing comment:
"Whether we win or lose, we win."
"I may be the first woman member of Congress," Jeanette Rankin observed upon her election in 1916, "but I won't be the last." Since then, more than 270 women have been elected or appointed to the US Congress, but this comprises only 2.1 percent of members ever elected. In 1924 and 1926, the National Woman's Party (NWP) ran a "Women for Congress" campaign in Pennsylvania. Designed to raise funds and encourage members to support qualified women candidates, the campaign built the foundation for organizations working today to broaden women's role in government. Women, however, remain significantly under-represented at every level. Today, efforts continue to echo the spirit of the NWP to recruit qualified women to run for office and increase their political involvement in local, state, and federal government. |