she represented a michigan district for it and like some of the earlier women, like julia butler hansen, she has got a lot of experience. she is a lawyer, she serves as a judge in michigan. and she is elected to the house in 1954 and she comes in in 1955. and she, too, very quickly moves into positions of influence purchase the first woman after a number of women in congress had campaigned with the speaker to get a seat on the very exclusive ways and means committee, the tax committee. and from that position, she really weighs in on a lot of the issues affecting women monetarily, but she is probably best known as the mother of the equal rights amendment. every year, she reentered used -- she reintroduce the equal rights amendment which has a history in congress going back to 1923. and the bill was just stuck in the judiciary committee and it never came out for she was a lawyer. she was very critical of the supreme court. she did not think the supreme court was ever going to decide a case that would make women truly equal with men. and so she got behind equal rights amendment. she gets i

julia butler hansen of washington state is definitely one of the women in this era who is pushing the ball along for women in terms of this apprenticeship that they are serving as a group. her background was a long-time member of the washington state house of representatives, she has a lot of legislative experience before she ever comes to capitol hill. she was the chair of a couple different committees in the state legislature, served quite often as speaker pro-tem. she -- one of the things she did in washington was she was a prime mover behind establishing the ferry system in the state. so she has got a lot of legislative experience and she is not your typical freshman when she is elected in 1960 in a special election. she very quickly moves in to a position of influence. she gets a seat on the appropriations committee in the house. and by the mid-1960s, she vies for a subcommittee chairmanship, one of the so-called cardinals of the appropriations committee. and she competes for a seat on the interior and related agencies subcommittee and it's a tough competition, but she wins out.

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