Women shatter barriers

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Ginger Gibson


... First Native American woman in Congress: Two Native American women elected will become the first indigenous people seated in Congress - Sharice Davids in Kansas and Haaland in New Mexico.

Youngest woman elected to Congress: After defeating a long-time incumbent in a Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez, became the youngest woman elected to Congress. The title was previously held by Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican who was first elected at the age of 30 in 2014 ...

First female Muslim members of Congress: There are two women who won seats to become the first female Muslim members of Congress - Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ilhan Omar in Minnesota. Omar will also be the first member of Congress to wear a hijab or head scarf, which she does as a Muslim. She is also the first Somali-American elected to Congress. Tlaib is the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress ...

First Korean-American woman elected to Congress: Republican Young Kim of California won a close race that secures her place as the first Korean-American woman elected as U.S. representative ...

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-firsts-factbox/factbox-women-shatter-many-barriers-in-congress-states-in-u-s-elections-idUKKCN1NC2HM?il=0

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1. Record Number Of Women

November 7, 20187:29 AM ET
DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN

After Tuesday's elections, a record number of women will serve in Congress come January 2019.

With results still coming in, 95 women have won their House races as of early Wednesday morning, up from the current 84. In addition, at least 13 women won Senate seats. That's in addition to the 10 female senators who were not up for re-election this year.

That means at least 118 women will serve in the 116th Congress, up from the current 107. And it will bring the share of Congress members who are women up from the current 20 percent to at least 22 percent ...

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665019211/a-record-number-of-women-will-serve-in-congress-with-potentially-more-to-come

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2. And the new House looks a lot like the USA!

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12. +!

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14. still too few women

Need to reach that magic 51%.

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3. First Muslim women elected to Congress

Courtney Connley
1 Hour Ago

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar ... are the first Muslim women elected to serve in Congress.

Tlaib, who ran unopposed after securing the Democratic nomination in August, won in Michigan's 13th Congressional District, and Omar, who faced Republican Jennifer Zielinki, won in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District ...

Tlaib, who was born to Palestinian parents, first made history in 2008 when she became the first Muslim woman to be elected State Representative. From 2009 to 2014 she served in the Michigan House of Representatives, where she helped secure millions of dollars for free health clinics, Meals on Wheels programs for seniors and before and after school education funding, according to her campaign website ...

Omar, who also makes history as the first Somali-American woman to be elected to Congress, came to the U.S. more than 20 years ago as a refugee. In 2016, she became the first Somali-American, Muslim legislator in the U.S. She was elected to serve in Minnesota's House of Representatives in District 60B, according to her campaign website ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-are-the-1st-muslim-women-elected-to-congress.html

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4. First black woman elected to Ohio Supreme Court

By Joey Morona

... <Melody> Stewart, a Democrat from Cleveland who sits on Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals, defeated Republican Mary DeGenaro with 53 percent of the vote.

She becomes the second black female justice to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court. Yvette McGee Brown was appointed to the court by Ted Strickland in 2011, but lost her bid to stay on the court the following year ...

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2018/11/lebron-james-offers-congrats-to-first-black-woman-elected-to-ohio-supreme-court.html

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5. Trudeau cheers 'historic' number of women elected in U.S.

Rachel Aiello, Ottawa News Bureau Online Producer
Published Wednesday, November 7, 2018 11:20AM EST

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a moment on the morning following the U.S. midterms to highlight the "historic" number of women elected.

As of early Wednesday, American media were projecting approximately 100 women would win seats in Congress, the largest number ever. Across the United States, women campaigned in record numbers in congressional and gubernatorial races.

"That's obviously good news," Trudeau said to reporters on his way into the weekly Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pm-trudeau-cheers-historic-number-of-women-elected-in-u-s-midterms-1.4166950

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6. Democrats won women's vote by the largest margin seen

By Lindsey Bever and Emily Guskin
November 7 at 11:23 AM

Women made history in the 2018 midterm elections.

Democrats won women’s vote for Congress by 19 points, with 59 percent voting Democrat and 40 percent voting Republican — the largest margin seen in midterm exit polls, according to data from CNN.

The last time women voted for Democrats anywhere near that margin was more than 30 years ago. In 1982, 58 percent of women voted for Democrats and 41 percent voted for Republicans.

Young women made their voices heard, as well, with two-thirds of voters younger than 30 voting for Democrats for Congress, compared with 32 percent who voted for Republicans, according to exit polls ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/07/why-did-democrats-win-house-one-word-women/?utm_term=.a08ec17bab0a

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7. Connecticut's first black woman elected to Congress

Courtney Connley
3 Hours Ago

... Democrat Jahana Hayes defeated Republican Manny Santos in the state's 5th Congressional District. Hayes, who was named National Teacher of the Year in 2016, will become Connecticut's first black woman in Congress ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/jahana-hayes-is-connecticuts-first-black-woman-elected-to-congress.html

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8. thanks for putting this together

I've been trying to find this data and looking in all the wrong places.

Hoping to add Stacey Abrams to the list if Kemp's skulduggery can be overcome.

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11. It's inspiring!

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9. First Native American women elected to Congress

News 4 Tucson Staff
9:02 am
November 7, 2018

(CNN) – Democrats Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland will become the first Native American women elected to Congress, CNN has projected.

In New Mexico, Haaland will replace Democratic Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who vacated the seat to run for governor, and Davids will unseat Kansas GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder.

Davids is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and Haaland is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna ...


https://kvoa.com/news/decision-2018/2018/11/07/first-native-american-women-elected-to-congress-sharice-davids-and-deb-haaland/

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10. Female candidates win in record numbers

Lauren Gambino in Washington
Wed 7 Nov 2018 03.13 EST

... A former CIA officer toppled an arch-conservative in Virginia. A cohort of women crashed Pennsylvania’s all-male congressional delegation. Tennessee elected its first female senator. A 29-year-old Latina will be the youngest woman to serve in the US House. And Kansas elected a lesbian former mixed martial arts fighter who will become one of two Native American women elected to Congress for the first time in the nation’s history ...

The House will gain two Latina congresswomen from Texas, the Democrats Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan will be the first Muslim congresswomen. And Massachusetts, Democrat Ayanna Pressley will be the first woman of color in her state’s congressional delegation ...

Dana Nessel dispensed with subtlety in one of her early ads: “When you’re choosing Michigan’s next attorney general, ask yourself this: who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting?” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/07/women-candidates-midterms-wins

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13. I am woman

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15. I'll never catch up reading

Don't wait for me, though; keep 'em coming!