Historical Context
The start women going to congress was when before women could vote, The first women that got in congress was, Jeannette Rankin’s life was filled with extraordinary achievements: she was the first woman elected to Congress, one of the few suffragists elected to Congress. Then in August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage.
Then that was the start of women running congress. Over the years women increase the number of women in congress. The number of female U.S. senators will either remain at 20, the same record high as set in the 2012 elections. But then again the amount of women in congress doesn’t increase enough to represent the real number of women. Not so in Congress, where women hold less than 17 percent of seats to this day, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. In 2010, the number of women elected to the House actually declined. In summary that women did want to be in congress but they were denied. Saying that women wanted the opportunity to become part of the congress and it shows that congress doesn't want women in congress.
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