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1981: Only 4% of the members of the U.S. Congress

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1980: Ronald Reagan (R) is elected president. The “gende

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1980: A thousand Hispanic and non-Hispanic feminists gat

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1980: Eunice Sato becomes the first Asian American woman

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1980: LaDonna Harris appears to be the first Native Amer

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1978: Velvalea "Vel" Phillips (D) is elected Wisconsin's

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1979: NOW President Ellie Smeal and Phyllis Schlafly deb

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1978: Concerned Women for America (CWA), a “pro-family”

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1978: Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-KS) becomes the first wo

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1978: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which am

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