Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink, a four-term Member of Congress from Hawaii in 1972, played a pivotal role in developing and ...

Clad in suffragette white, Kamala Harris used her first speech as the United States’ first female vice president-elect to commemorate women’s political achievements. Her victory comes one century ...

people don't know who she is or who she was or what she accomplished for women pay equity for work of comparable value must become the single most important goal for America with it, women will ...

Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. The biography notes that Mink was the first Japanese American in Hawaii to practice law, first ...

Meet the first woman of color to serve in Congress, responsible for landmark legislation. Meet the first woman of color to serve in Congress, responsible for landmark legislation. Meet the first woman ...