#Women in Government

[newyorkthegoldenage]

On December 27, 1928, Governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt named Frances Perkins the new Commissioner of Labor, the first woman to hold the job. An advocate for workers' rights, she helped put New York in the forefront of progressive reform by expanding factory investigations, capping the workweek for women at 48 hours, championing a minimum wage and unemployment insurance, and working to end child labor. In 1933, President Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor, a post she held for 12 years. She was the first woman ever to hold a Cabinet position.

Photo: Associated Press

[isawthismeme]

Black people and women have been overqualified for every position in America since July 3rd, 1776. It is the progress of white people and of men to finally get over their racism and misogyny that is allowing people into those spaces. Remember that.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Allyson Schwartz

Representative Allyson Schwartz was born in New York City in 1948. From 2005 until 2015, Schwartz represented Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. Her first legislative proposal in Congress was a bill that offered tax credits to businesses that hired veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and this proposal was signed into law as part of a 2007 business tax reduction bill. Rep. Schwartz developed a reputation as one of the leading healthcare experts in government, authoring several key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including the ban on denials due to preexisting conditions. She also spearheaded efforts to reform the Medicare physician payment system.

Image: United States House of Representatives

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[nando161mando]

FIFA has just delayed a decision on a Palestinian bid to suspend Israel from international soccer until after the Paris Olympics, claiming that both parties had requested more time to submit their positions.

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MDZS x Brazil (1985)

(Yes. Real movie dialogue)

[gingerswagfreckles]

I just saw someone describe the phenomenon of all kinds of minority groups allying with people who want to kill them too as long as they also want to kill Jews and accepting all the bigotry that goes along with that even when it's directed towards them themselves as "intersectional antisemitism" and um yeah wow I think that is a really useful term.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Ladies, don't worry, even after the Republican "Project 2025" is implemented, you and your doctor will still have full authority regarding your reproductive health — with some minor exceptions...

• The Republican Party will decide if you're allowed to use contraception, and if so, we'll decide what method we think is appropriate, and we'll make all other methods illegal.

• The moment you become pregnant, the Republican Party will gain control over your uterus via the laws we've enacted. It doesn't matter to us whether you're a 12 year old child or an adult. Whatever your opinions or individual circumstances are, we literally do not care. Unless we decide your life is in jeopardy, you will be forced to give birth. If you do not conform to our laws, you and your doctor will be sentenced to prison.

Just to be clear, we're not fascists, really we aren't. We just want control over women because women are incapable of making these private decisions on their own. That's why we're going to make you live by our "values". You and your doctor shouldn't be making decisions that will dramatically change the rest of your life. Only the Republican Party knows what's best for every uterus in America.

[balkanradfem]

I've managed to curate my small misogyny-free space both online and in real life, and now I'm no longer used to misogyny, it's no longer normal to me. So when I accidentally glimpse it, I'm not desensitized to it, I'm always shocked and unbelieving.

If I notice a m*n talking about a woman like she's 'just some ***' I'm immediately aware that this is in fact a demonic creature who needs to be burned. If I see anyone using a slur against women or pretending women are at fault for any of the world's issues, the hair on my neck stands up at the unbelievable amount of hatred.

Anyone implying that women should be in any way controlled, punished, forced to do anything against their will or dedicate their lives to anyone but themselves, is preposterous and villainous to me, I'm at loss that someone could even think that way about a half of the human population who are creators and administrators of life.

I know I am in a bubble, but it feels different knowing deeply in your heart that all of this is not normal, that casual or normalized hatred against women is absolutely insane, that it's sharp and painful and dehumanizing at every turn. It's insane to realize that women just have to live like this, believing all of that is normal, that I once lived like this, wondering what was wrong with me and why I couldn't just be what everyone was expecting me to.

I think still, if I can make a small space without this hate present in it, without anyone or anything implying we should be anything but free, anything but full complete human beings with absolute control over our lives, then we can strengthen and grow these spaces, and get more women in, have more women experience what life is like when hatred is removed. There is hope for women.

[isawthismeme]

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Judy Chu

Representative Judy Chu was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California. Rep. Chu first joined the House of Representatives in 2009 after winning a special election, becoming the first Chinese American woman in Congress. She currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over revenue, taxes, Medicare, and Social Security. Rep. Chu is chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and is the founder and co-chair of the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus. While in Congress, she has championed many causes, including immigration reform, reproductive rights, and health equity.

Image source: US House of Representatives

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Some good news!

[nando161mando]

A message from one of the four young women who are going to jail for protesting Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer

[mapsontheweb]

Countries where there is not a single woman in government.

by geo.universe