Kristin Gillibrand, a US senator from New York, wrote on Friday that she was inspired by Clinton’s speech in 1995 to pursue her dreams of being a US senator. That's more than ever, but still too few /NE8QMT19sA- Guardian US January 6, 2015
The United States population is 50.8% female.Ī record 104 women serve in the 114th Congress. That is still only 19% of the House and 20% of the Senate. Today, during the 114th session of Congress, there are 104 women who have been elected to represent American voters – 84 in the House and 20 in the Senate. Now, 20 years later, has anything changed? Women in politicsĭuring the 104th session of US Congress, which ran from 1995 to 1997, 50 women were elected into the 435-member House of Representatives and nine into the 100-seat Senate. While Clinton was talking about women’s rights violations all around the world – women killed over the size of their dowries, women raped during wars, women sterilized against their will, babies killed because they were female – she also made sure to highlight the plight of women back at home in the US.Īs an American, I want to speak up for women in my own country – women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can’t afford healthcare or childcare, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes.
Hillary, 20 years ago today: “It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.”
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