Women in Congress information

Women in Congress may refer to: Women in the United States House of Representatives Women in the United States Senate Women in the Indian National Congress;...

United States Congress was forcefully occupied. Various social and structural barriers have prevented women from gaining seats in Congress. In the early 20th...

International Congress of Women was created so that groups of existing women's suffrage movements could come together with other women's groups around...

Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of...

Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of...

The Congress of Canadian Women (French: Congrès des femmes canadiennes) was a feminist organization created in March 1950 by the merger of several organizations...

United States Congress. As of 2023[update], only four Muslim Americans have ever been elected to Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006. Three...

In 2014, Tamara Abed was awarded Outstanding Women Leadership Award by the World Women Leadership Congress. Social Work award 2014, Canvas Freedom-Persona...

India Mahila Congress (AIMC), also referred to as Mahila Congress, is the women's wing of the Indian National Congress (INC). It was founded in 1940 to promote...

Muslim women in Congress. The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S...

(founded in 1895) and the Women's International Bowling Congress (founded in 1927). A chess congress is a chess tournament, in one city, where a large number...

from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2013. Women in Congress, 1917–2006. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2006...

of 1915, also known as the International Congress of Women or Women's Peace Congress (1915) Hague Congress (1948), pioneering convention of European...

The Congress of American Women was an American women's rights organization. It was founded in New York on International Women's Day, March 8, 1946, following...

The Canadian Women Voters Congress is a non-partisan, charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia that offers Canada's longest running...

influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly...

The Congress of the Confederation, or the Confederation Congress, formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, was the governing body...

White South African women generally abstained from participating in FEDSAW activism, with the exception of those in the Congress of Democrats. FEDSAW's...

The Congress of Black Women of Canada (CBWC) / Congrès des femmes noires du Canada, which began in 1973, is a national non-profit organization that "is...

candidates, which included 226 men and 21 women, contested from the 14 constituencies that went for polls in phase two on 26 April. The constituency with...

First Congress of Lithuanian Women (Lithuanian: Pirmasis lietuvių moterų suvažiavimas) took place on 6–7 October [O.S. 23–24 September] 1907 in Kaunas...

following lists the most senior women in either or both houses of Congress, sometimes called the "dean of women" in either chamber. In the House, Edith Nourse...