Center for American Women and Politics

2001: Only 14% of the members of the U.S. Congress

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2000: George W. Bush is elected president.

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2000: Sila Calderon (Popular Democratic Party), former m

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2000: Heather Fargo is elected mayor of Sacramento, CA,

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2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the only First Lady

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1999: Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) becomes the first wom

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1999: Elizabeth Dole announces her exploratory committee

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1998: Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, becomes

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1997: Aida Alvarez becomes the first Hispanic woman, as

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1997: Madeleine K. Albright becomes the first woman to s

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