What are your feelings on this? This list does seem so... lacking. What do you believe the reasons for this are? Now I am not advocating Senator Clinton for President but if we can not get my choice, Wes Clark, would she or another qualified woman not be a viable candidate?
Seems there should be more to this list. Women in this country have come a long ways but with the help of the media, some of that has been taken away (just think about it).
WOMEN'S MILESTONES IN US POLITICS
1916
Jeanette Rankin, R-Mont., became the first woman elected to the House.
1920
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.
(Why did it take 4 years after the first woman was ELECTED to congress)
1922
Rebecca Latimer Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to serve in the Senate. She was appointed to fill temporarily a vacant seat and served for only two days.
1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross, D-Wyo., became the first woman governor, after she was elected to replace her deceased husband.
1925
Rep. Mae Ella Nolan, R-Calif., became the first woman to chair a congressional committee, when she headed the committee on expenditures in the Post Office Department.
1931
Sen. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, D-Ark., was appointed to the Senate to succeed her deceased husband. She later became the first woman elected to the Senate.
1933
Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, when President Roosevelt appointed her secretary of labor.
1981
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman on the Supreme Court.
1984
Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro, D-N.Y., became the first woman to run on a major party's national ticket, when she was selected by Democrat Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate.
2007
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., becomes first female speaker of the House this week. She became the first woman to head her party in Congress when she was elected House minority leader in 2002.
Please read the rest here:
Shouldn't There Be More? Is Pelosi A Sign Of The Near Future?
Who would be your choice for a viable and strong woman candidate for President? Well?