How long has Congress had female members? Women have served in Congress since suffrage activist Jeannette Rankin of Montana won a seat in 1916—four years before women won the right to vote.

She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022. By Trip Gabriel and Yan Zhuang Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, who served from 2015 to 2019, when her opposition to the ...

As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy has failed, some lawmakers hope their states can find solutions to bring and keep younger women in state capitols.