Anita Hill & NYT Ad

I've been told progress is slow *winks*

May I share another comforting thought? 1992 was called Year of the Woman*. Anita Hill sparked something all those years ago so maybe we can finally get the train back on the track.

I met April Ryan AND Valerie Jarrett last week. Met met. So I'm still floating on air full of optimism and girl power! *laughs*


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"In 1992 women went to the polls energized by a record-breaking number of women on the federal ticket. Nationally, 11 women won major party nominations for Senate races while 106 women contended for House seats in the general election.46 The results were unprecedented. The 24 women who won election to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time that November comprised the largest number elected to the House in any single election, and the women elected to the Senate tripled the number of women in that chamber by the start of the 103rd Congress.47 Dubbed the “Year of the Woman,” 1992 also marked the beginning of more than 20 years of remarkable achievements for minority women. Forty-seven of the 58 African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-Pacific-American women who have served in Congress were elected between 1992 and 2016.
California’s 1992 congressional races were a microcosm of the changes beginning to take place nationally. During the 102nd Congress (1991–1993), there were three women in the California congressional delegation, roughly 6 percent. In 1992 a record 71 California women were nominated to run in the fall elections for federal and state offices.48 “The days of the cold lonely fights of the ’60s and ’70s, when women were often laughed at as we tried to push for new opportunities, are over,” said congressional candidate Lynn Schenk. “No one’s laughing now.”49 Five new women Members from California, including Schenk, were elected to the House in the fall of 1992 alone. Two others, Representative Barbara Boxer and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, won election as U.S. Senators, making California the first state with two women in the Senate. By the 114th Congress in 2016, 21 members of the California congressional delegation were women, 39.6 percent of the state’s total representation in Congress. 50