Women did not serve as delegates to the continental congress during the American revolution.
There are currently 13 woman in congress.
Jeannette Rankin
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The first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress was Jeannette Rankin of Montana. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, four years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Jeannette Rankin, a US representative from Montana, was the first woman to serve in the US Congress, elected in 1916. This was three years before the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in the US. But Montana had already enacted women's suffrage laws in 1914, in part due to the efforts of women including Rankin.Rankin won a second time (in a different district) in 1940. A staunch pacifist, Rankin remains the only woman to have everrepresented Montana in Congress.
As of 2011, there are 90 women in the US congress - 17 of them are in the Senate, and 73 are in the House of Representatives. There are also three women serving as Delegates to the House: they are from Guam, the Virgin Islands and Washington, DC. And the leader of the Democrats (who are currently in the minority in the House) is a woman, Nancy Pelosi.
Jeanette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, was the first woman to serve in the United States Congress. She served in the House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1941 to 1943.
I found the info below on this web site: http://congress.indiana.edu/learn_about/feature/qa_members.html#women In the House there are 74 female Representatives. The Senate has 16 females. These are the highest numbers of women Members in the history of the Congress. Of the 16 female Senators, 11 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans. Of the 74 female Representatives, 53 are Democrats and 21 are Republicans. Two of the women House members are sisters: Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez, both Democrats from California. The first woman elected to serve in Congress was Representative Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana. She served from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1941 to 1943. Since then, 193 women have been elected to serve in Congress. To see a list of all the names of the women who have served as Members of Congress, their biographies, links to the websites of current female Members, and a brief history of women serving in Congress, visit: http://bioguide.congress.gov/congresswomen/index.asp
In the United States of America, Congress women play the same role as the men. However, there are fewer women in Congress than men.
women were granted the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. However, the first woman, Jeannette Rankin, was elected to Congress in 1916, before women had the right to vote. Regarding non-whites, the first African American, Hiram Rhodes Revels, was elected to Congress in 1870, during the Reconstruction era. Since then, women and non-whites have continued to be eligible and serve as members of Congress.
Women's International Bowling Congress was created in 1917.