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March 1993: Nominated by President Bill Clinton, Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.

January 1997: Also nominated by Clinton, Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the nations first female secretary of state.

January 2007: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) became the House's first female speaker. In 2019, she reclaimed the title, becoming the first lawmaker to hold the office two times in more than 50 years.

Probably taken outside Margaret Sanger's Brownsville clinic trial at the King's County Court of Special Sessions, Jan. 30, 1917.

January 2013: The U.S. military removed a ban against women serving in combat positions.

July 2016: Hillary Clinton became the first woman to receive a major political party's presidential nomination. During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, she said, "Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come."

January 2021: Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman and first woman of color vice president of the United States. "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," Harris said after getting elected in November.

Womens economic status:

You would think with the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that women in general and women of color would have wage equality with white men. However, this is far from the case. Today in the U.S., women in general make 82 cents for every $1 men earn. For women of color, it is even worse, with Black women earning 62 cents and Latina women earning 54 cents for every white mans dollar. On the surface, this would seem to be racism and sexism. However, it is much more complicated than that, and white men are not the villain.

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