• Mexico • Spain • Ethiopia • Vietnam • Iraq All of these countries, among dozens of others, have a greater percentage of female lawmakers than the United States.
Other countries have prioritized female representation while the U.S. has not, Lee said.“They made a conscientious effort to write it into their constitution. Countries that achieved parity have that in their framework,” Lee said. “We don’t have that in America.”
“Each generation we have to say enough is enough,” Lee said. “Suffragettes weren’t given the right to vote. They had to fight for it…. So we’re still fighting.” Sanchez spent six years as the only woman on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over tax writing and several social safety net programs, such as Social Security, unemployment and Medicare.The committee would talk about child care, and “it would just infuriate me when I would hear members on the other side of the aisle say, ‘Can’t the grandparents watch the kids?’” Sanchez said.
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