Her Ruby Shoe Moment Jeannette Rankin knew what she had to do, but spent a minute gathering her courage and resolve to do it. It was December 8, 1941 and Jeannette was on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. It was her third term as a Congresswoman from Montana, but there had been 22 years between this … Read More
Patsy Mink
When she was a kid it was acceptable for high schools to ban girls from playing sports and taking classes in subjects like math and science. When she applied to college it was acceptable for universities to admit only a few women at a time and bar them from majors that were too “masculine.” When she was a Congresswoman, she wrote a law to change all of that. Join us in the halls of the 1971 Congress and meet Patsy Mink…