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Larry has some strong views on gender inequality and is working with a new organization to help promote women to leadership roles and elected office. Please visit Let’s Represent Her to learn how you too can support and vote for women in leadership positions.
Shirley Chisholm was a longtime Congresswoman from Brooklyn, New York. She was a woman who would never back down from anything that she believed in and would fight for everything that she believed to be necessary to fight for. In 1968, Chisholm made history by becoming the first African American woman to be elected into Congress. However, before that she was an elementary school teacher and also from 1959-1964, she was an educational consultant for New York City’s Bureau of Child Welfare. When she took office, she shocked Congress by demanding reassignment after being assigned to the House Forestry Committee. As a freshman Congresswoman, this was unheard of. She was granted the change and put on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee before eventually being put on the House Education and Labor Committee. In 1969, she was also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. She was also one of the four founding women of the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971.
Shirley Chisholm ran to become the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States. She was the first African American woman to run for the position, and many people viewed her candidacy as symbolic, rather than as a viable candidate, which hurt her numbers. Another major challenge she faced was money and endorsements. The Black Caucus, which she helped found, would not officially give her their full backing, and even some of her political friends would not officially endorse her. She was only on the ballot for 11 states, and received votes from 14 states in some capacity. Money prevented her from entering many of the primaries. When she entered the Democratic National Convention, she had 28 delegates. However, she would end up with 151 delegate votes. She became the first African American woman to get delegate votes at a convention and the first woman to get delegate votes at the convention. Overall, she spent about $300,000 throughout the campaign. She garnered most of her votes from young college voters, women, and minorities. She continued to serve as a Congresswoman until 1982.
She continued to make major contributions to Congress. She introduced over 50 pieces of legislation throughout her career. She also was appointed to the House Rules Committee in 1977. After she retired, and during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, she was offered to become the ambassador to Jamaica, but declined due to poor health. She taught in college during her retirement, as well as created the National Political Congress of Black Women. She would pass away on January 1, 2005 due to complications from strokes she had during her later years.
Kamala Harris is one of the newest Senators in the United States Senate. Before she became US Senator from California, she graduated from the Howard University with her bachelor’s of arts degree and then went to the University of California, Hastings College of the Law to get her law degree. After school, she interned at the Alameda County District Attorney’s (DA) office and was one of two women to become interns there at the time. After being an intern, she was offered a job as a deputy DA for the county. In 2003, she challenged an eight year-incumbent to become the District Attorney of San Francisco, and won. This made her the first woman, African-American, and South Asian District Attorney for San Francisco. She challenged those who believed that there were only two ways to punish crime, either by being hard on crime or soft on it, by saying that we need to be “Smart on Crime,” which also was the title of her book on criminal justice reform and criminal justice in San Francisco.
In 2010, Harris ran for Attorney General of the state of California. She succeeded in her bid and became the 32nd Attorney General and the first female, African American, and South Asian to hold the office. While holding the office, she focused on trying to protect the environment, prevent drugs and guns from being brought into the state from Mexico, fighting against human trafficking, and trying to reduce the rate of recidivism in the state. She also fought the banking and real estate markets to try to get rid of any elements of the foreclosure crisis from occurring once more. Her office has worked to try to make the necessary technological advances and help the access of these to the public when possible.
She announced that he would run for the 2016 Senate seat for California, as a Democrat. She would successfully win the Democratic nomination, and later, the Senate seat. She became one of the first multi-racial women and the first Indian American to become a Senator. She has continued to fight for those in need and the needs of her constituents by being in opposition to Trump’s immigration policies, and some of his cabinet selections, such as Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos. She was also listed as a possible challenger to knock off Trump in the 2020 election (if she decides to run), by Mother Jones magazine.
Patsy Mink was the first woman of color to ever be elected into either house of the United States Congress. She took office in 1965 and served until 1977 before being returning to office again in 1990 up until her death in 2002. Before going into office she founded the Oahu Young Democrats in 1954, and then started working as an attorney for the Hawaii territorial house of representatives in 1955. In 1956 she got elected to the territorial house of representatives, in which she would serve again in 1958. She would get elected to the Hawaii Senate in 1958 until 1959, when she tried unsuccessfully for Hawaii’s sole seat in the United States House of Representatives, once Hawaii was made a state. She returned to the Hawaii state Senate in 1962 and served until 1964, when she ran for the second seat that Hawaii was given in the US House of Representatives. She prided herself on using grass-roots movements to get elected to office. One of her most passionate causes was education. She served on the state Senate education committee, and the US House education committee from 1965-1977. She also introduced or sponsored many education related bills, such as the first childcare bill, bills introducing, student loans, bilingual education, special education, Head Start, the Women’s Education Equity Act, and Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments. She also served on the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs from her second term until 1977, and served on the House Budget Committee from 1973-1977
She lost a bid in 1977 for the US Senate, and took time away from US Congress, by returning to Hawaii and getting a position on Honolulu’s city council and served from 1983-1987. She tried, unsuccessfully to become governor of Hawaii in 1986 and mayor of Honolulu in 1988, before returning to the US House of Representatives in 1990. She was again given a seat on the Education committee, which had been renamed the Committee on Education and Labor, and would be renamed again the Committee on Education and the Workforce. She would also receive spots on the Government Operations Committee, later renamed the Government Reform Committee, as well as the Natural Resources Committee during 1993-1995 and the Budget Committee from 1993-1999. During this time, she also organized and led the Democratic Women’s Caucus in 1995.
During her second stint in Congress, she focused on healthcare, gender issues, and education. She supported Universal healthcare and said that it was the biggest and most important domestic issue facing America. She also co-sponsored the Gender Equity Act of 1993 to try to get rid of gender discrimination in schools. She fought to protect welfare rights for citizens in the country and stayed true to her liberal beliefs, no matter if she was in the minority or majority. She also spoke out in 2002 against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security because she believed that it could put private concerns and public security on the back-burner in exchange for what others believe is best for the country’s security. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2002, while still serving in Congress due to complications of pneumonia. She was running for reelection at the time of her death, and her name was kept on the ballot, in which she would still win. She butted heads throughout her career with both Republicans and Democrats, but also was praised by both.
@Regranned from @missrepresentation - This is Judge Aquilina throwing away the letter Larry Nassar wrote the court about how hard it is for him to listen to victim testimonies. As a result, Nassar had to listen to all 168 statements from the women and girls he assaulted read out loud in court. Talk about Lady Justice. THIS is why we need more women in positions of power. Oh and this morning, Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. #TimesUp #MeToo #RepresentHer H/T 🎥 @ellievhall
#MissRepresentation
Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newson. It explores how mainstream media contributes to the under representation of women in influential positions by circulating often negative portrayals of women. This films transitions between stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews. The film has a motto, “you can't be what you can't see,” this gives a message that women, especially young, both need and want positive role models. I personally agree with these arguments that media does not always show women in a positive light. They do what they can to create these insane standards for women that they themselves don't even meet. They give the illusion of this with things like photoshop and statements that claim the “ideal body”. The other documentary film “The Mask you Live in”, talks about the masculinity of young men and how they are being raised. Just like women, media society tries to also say what the ideal man should be. Young men see this and just like women, will feel like that if they don't meet these imaginary standards that their just not good enough. I believe that we as young adults should not worry about what society or the media tells us we should be. You should strive to be the “best you” that you can be.
For the next week, I am doing an Online Campaign for my Women and American Politics class, to try to let people know of the under-representation of minority women in American Politics. For this week, I will be sharing statistics about minority women in politics as well as highlighting a few major women who have served in office. In a time where we have seemingly reached a major fork in the road in terms of civil unrest and a large portion of the country seemingly against the status quo of politicians seemingly being the stereotypical old, rich, white, male, it is important for women to get involved and try to make a difference to shatter what people believe to be the norm in politics. I hope, that by doing this and showcasing a portion of underrepresented individuals, that we can begin to have a serious discussion about having a more diverse government, that will hopefully relate more and understand their constituents that they are supposed to represent. To start off, I am sharing this video highlighting some big political firsts that occurred from the 2016 election. While much of the attention was given to who would become the President of the United States, women of color were making major strides in gaining positions in all areas of the political realm. Hopefully, this will be just the beginning of a major political revolution.
They let us borrow stress balls at the viewing of Miss Representation tonight. We definitely needed them. #DisruptTheNarrative #RepresentHer #volunteer For more information on the film go to therepresentationproject.org
