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Weistein was a very prominent Hollywood producer who was outed that year for sexually harassing many women who were involved or being considered for one of his many productions. There were then 23 female senators, a relativly high number historically but woefully low compared to reasonable parity where we would expect 50.


In one of the earliest claims that women should be allowed to preach, she made a theological argument and then challenged the male theologians to better her arguments. Although she was very demur, intellectually and theologically she “took it right at them.” Such intellectual aggression by women was virtually unheard of.


Many politicians in that day would campaign from large carts drawn by oxen – a predecessor to the bandwagon of sorts. She was 1 of the 4 women who entered Oberlin College in 1837 thus becoming the first co-educational institution of higher education in the United States.


Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
  • Born: October 26, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.