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Table of Contents

Guide

The

Women

of the

th

Congress

ABRAMS IMAGE, NEW YORK

PORTRAITS OF POWER

Foreword by ROXANE GAY

Portraits by ELIZABETH D. HERMAN

and CELESTE SLOMAN

The

Women

of the

th

Congress

TO THE WOMEN OF POWER IN OUR LIVES

Our grandmothersSelma, Mary, Taube, Eleanor,

Shirley, Sylvia, Alice, and Ruthwhose generation was

born as the first women were sworn into Congress;

and our mothersPatricia, Margaret, Karen,

and Alicewho raised us to demand a seat at the

table and to challenge the status quo;

this is for you.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

By

ROXANE GAY

in the

2018

midterm elections there

was, after two years of political upheaval, a moment of

promise and possibility as an unprecedented number

of women were elected to the United States Congress.

It was a historic election on many fronts235 women

ran for seats in the House of Representatives and 23

women ran for the Senate. Many of these women were

galvanized by the outcome of the 2016 election, where

Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton

but won the Electoral College and became president.

Here we had a man with no political experience who

bragged about grabbing women by their genitals

elected to the highest office in the country. It was a

bit-

ter pill for many

American women to swallow, but it

FOREWORD

FOREWORD

was not a pill swallowed passively. Organizations

like She Should Run, a nonpartisan incubator

program for potential candidates, examined the

political landscape and determined that when

women run for office, they win at the same rates

as men. The problem wasnt that women werent

winning. The problem was that women werent

running. Already, the

program has prepared

thousands of women to run for local, state, and

federal office. She Should Runs goal is to have

women serving in half of the 500,000 elected

positions in this country by 2030. If the mid-

terms are any indication, that goal is well within

reach.

There are now more women in Congress

than ever before106 serve in the House and

25 in the Senate. Many of them are break-

ing new ground. Rashida Tlaib is the first

Palestinian-American congresswoman. Ilhan

Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress

and, along with Tlaib, one of the first two Mus-

lim women to hold a congressional seat. Sharice

Davids and Deb Haaland are the first Native

American women. Davids is also an out lesbian.

Ayanna Pressley is the first black woman elected

to represent Massachusetts. Veronica Escobar

and Sylvia Garcia are Texass first Latina rep-

resentatives, even though almost 40 percent of

that state is Hispanic.

Tammy Duckworth is the first Thai-

American woman in Congress,

the first senator

to give birth while holding office, and the first

female double amputee in Congress. Kyrsten

Sinema is the first woman elected to the Senate

from Arizona and also the first openly bisexual

woman senator. Sinema serves alongside Mar-

tha McSally, who was appointed to the Senate

after the death of John McCain. McSally is no

stranger to firstsshe was the first woman to

fly in combat. Carol Miller, of West Virginia, was

the only newly elected Republican woman and

the first woman to ever represent her district.

The 116th Congress is, indeed, the most

diverse to ever represent the American people.

Thirteen percent of those in Congress are immi-

grants or children of immigrants. In addition

to more women than ever before, there is also

significantly more racial and ethnic diversity.

The people who have been elected to represent

us are, finally, starting to more accurately reflect

the American people.

This matters because when a diverse range

of people serve in Congress, they start to address

the issues the range of Americans are facing.

Take, for example, the work of Illinois represen-

tative Lauren Underwood. Along with Repre-

sentative Alma Adams, Underwood has formed

the Black Maternal Health Caucus to address

the fact that black women are three to four times

more likely to die from pregnancy complications

than white women. The caucus will address the

systemic issues black women face in the health

care systemwork that has long been neglected

because there havent been enough elected repre-

sentatives concerned with those issues.

The member of the 116th Congress who has,

perhaps, received the most attention is Alexan-

dria Ocasio-Cortez, at twenty-nine the youngest

woman ever elected to congressional office.

Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of both

the Bronx and Queens, has an interesting story,

yes, and she excels at incisive comebacks when

people try to create conflict with her on social

media. But she also has an intelligent grasp of

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