The article compares numbers from Pat’s career with those today:

  • 1972–Pat assumed her congressional office.  She was the first woman to represent Colorado.  There were 14 women in the House then, 125 today
  • The chair of the House Armed Services Committee said that women and blacks were worth only half of one ‘regular’ member so Pat shared her seat on the committee with a Black man from CA.
  • Starting in 1993 women were allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor.  As of 2011, there is a women’s bathroom intended for female representatives.
  • She and Congresswoman Marge Roukema initiated the Family Leave Act which became law in 1993.  This pair was ridiculed much like today’s  Squad with AOC.

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The passing of Pat Schroeder marks how far we have come

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