The History of Women in Public Office
By Madison Troyer, Stacker News
On 2/28/21 at 7:00 AM EST
On Jan. 20, 2021, a new chapter in American history began when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the country s first female vice president, were sworn into office. Harris role in the position is certainly monumental, but her nomination, while significant, was not a first. That honor, of being the first woman nominated by the Democratic party for the role of vice president, belongs to Geraldine A. Ferraro. In 1984, Ferraro, a congresswoman from Queens, strode on stage alongside Walter F. Mondale to accept the nomination, telling attendees at the Democratic National Convention, If we can do this, we can do anything. While the duo lost to Reagan, the
law, we are honoring heroes that made that law possible. a fierce determination of americans who saw a wrong and worked to right it. there are women who were sick and tired of being sick and tired of seeing the same jobs advertised with different pay scales, women who were tired of being treated like second class workers, women like dorothy hite and congresswoman edna kelly. all who pushed to make the equal pay act a reality. today we recognize the work of those brave women. but, until equal pay truly is a reality, we re also here to recommit ourselves to the work that remains to be done. 50 years ago today president kennedy signed the equal pay act into law right here in the white house.
0 over all its records to the nsa. that is not something, from what we know about his job, you could see why he would have had access to that. so it does raise the questions how he got it and were there other people out there who might have helped get that out. you make a great point of the privatization of national security in this country. booz allen makes a quarter of its revenue from work in u.s. intelgs and that is huge and another contract with the pentagon worth up to $5.6. the company put out a statement the other day saying snowden has been an employee of our firm less than three months in hawaii. this individual claims to have leaked classified information is shocking and if accurate this action presents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm. we work closely in the investigation of this matter and say he was only an employee id ideolodgeally upset about the process. the fisa court maybe needs to be looked at and allow people to somehow come fo
was on to find out who outed that information. my name is edward snowden, i m 29 years old. i work for booz allen hamilton as a infrastructure analyst for nsa in hawaii. booz allen is one of the most profitable companies in this country, and has just one client. the u.s. government. it earned $1.3 billion for intelligence work. snowed den who rose to his position without even completing high school was one of thousands of employees there with top-secret clearance. to naught in perspective, twice as many people have access as has lived in the entire city of washington, d.c. it s more people than live in hawaii, maine, or new hampshire, and a third of those don t actually work for the government at all. they work for private contractors. snowden said he thought people needed to know. any analyst at anytime can target anyone. i sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if i had a
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