WOMEN IN POLITICS
The number of women in the United States Congress is decreasing. Why is it? asks an American woman writer. Dots it mean that women are a failure in politics? How are they making out in less spectacular political races? How are they getting along in the Herculean task men have handed them of cleaning the Augean stables of politics? Next session there will be only one new feminine face in Congress—Judge Jessie Sumner, of Milford, Illinois, a graduate of Smith College and first American woman to study law at Oxford University. Two members of the present Congress will not come back. Mrs Jenckes was defeated for re-election after serving three terms; Mrs Honeyman after one. In all. 24 women have been sent to Congress, beginning with Miss Jeanette A. Rankin, of Montana. In 1917. At one time in 1930 there were nine women in the House of Representatives. Next session there will be only four in the House and one in the Senate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 14
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166WOMEN IN POLITICS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 14
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