{"id":2844,"date":"2016-11-18T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:35","slug":"how-many-women-have-served-in-the-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/11\/18\/how-many-women-have-served-in-the-us-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"How many women have served in the US Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get the data from the latest Library of Congress CRS report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/misc\/RL30261.pdf\">Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information<\/a> and Listings by State and Congress.\u00a0 The 110 page document lists and provides biographic information on individuals as well as statistics on numbers, parties and roles.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on women and parliamentary representation worldwide try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/wmn-e\/classif-arc.htm\">IPU database<\/a> which has current and historic data from 1996 onwards.\u00a0 You can also look for references to related articles in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/bdf-e\/BDFsearch.asp\">Women in Politics bibliographic database.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the data from the latest Library of Congress CRS report Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information and Listings by State and Congress.\u00a0 The 110 page document lists and provides biographic information on individuals as well as statistics on numbers, parties and roles. For more information on women and parliamentary representation worldwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,303],"tags":[41,95,99],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-us-politics","tag-democracy","tag-usa","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}