Contains profiles, contextual essays, historical images, and appendices that provide information about the 229 women who have served in Congress from 1917 throu

Since 1917 when Jeannette Rankin became the first women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, several hundred women have been elected or appointed to C

Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Arrangements for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial.

A photographic celebration of the women of the 116th—the most diverse Congress in American history. The first woman Speaker of the House. The first female com