Related Research Articles
Barbara Charline Jordan was an African American lawyer,educator,and politician. A Democrat,she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
Lorenzo Fernando Lamas is an American actor. He is widely known for his role of Lance Cumson,the irresponsible grandson of Angela Channing—played by Jane Wyman—in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990),for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor –Series,Miniseries or Television Film.
Since Montana became a U.S. state in 1889,it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years. Before the Seventeenth Amendment took effect in 1913,senators were elected by the Montana State Legislature. Members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms,one from Montana's at-large congressional district. Before becoming a state,the Territory of Montana elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1864 to 1889.
Carrie Mae Pittman Meek was the United States Representative for Florida's 17th congressional district,from 1993 to 2003. Having been elected in the September 1992 primary with no general election opponent,she was the first African American since the Reconstruction era elected to represent Florida in the United States Congress,where she advocated for the poor and for members of minority groups. An educator,legislator,stateswoman and a member of the Democratic Party,she served from 1979 to 1982 in the Florida House of Representatives,from 1982 to 1992 in the Florida Senate,and from 1993 to 2003,as a congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives. She was the founder of the Carrie Meek Foundation.
Kuensel is the national newspaper of the Kingdom of Bhutan. It was the only local newspaper available in Bhutan until 2006 when two more newspapers were launched. The government of Bhutan owns 51% of Kuensel while 49% is held by the public.
Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen was the tenth Panchen Lama,officially the 10th Panchen Erdeni,of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. According to Tibetan Buddhism,Panchen Lamas are living emanations of the buddha Amitabha. He was often referred to simply as Choekyi Gyaltsen.
Government in Australia is elected by universal suffrage and Australian women participate in all levels of the government of the nation. In 1902,the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia became the first nation on earth to enact equal suffrage,enabling women to both vote and stand for election alongside men Women have been represented in Australian state parliaments since 1921,and in the Federal Parliament since 1943. The first female leader of an Australian State or Territory was elected in 1989,and the first female Prime Minister took office in 2010. In 2019 for the first time,a majority of members of the Australian Senate were women. At the time of its foundation in 1901,and again from 1952 to 2022,Australia has had a female monarch as ceremonial Head of State,while the first female Governor of an Australian State was appointed in 1991,and the first female Governor-General of Australia took office in 2008.
Linda Jean Burney is an Australian politician and is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing Barton since the 2016 federal election. She is Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese ministry,and the first woman who identifies as Aboriginal to serve in that position.
Jetsun Pema is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama. For 42 years she was the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school system for Tibetan refugee students.
Women in Buddhism is a topic that can be approached from varied perspectives including those of theology,history,anthropology,and feminism. Topical interests include the theological status of women,the treatment of women in Buddhist societies at home and in public,the history of women in Buddhism,and a comparison of the experiences of women across different forms of Buddhism. As in other religions,the experiences of Buddhist women have varied considerably.
Women have served in the United States House of Representatives,the lower chamber of the United States Congress,with the Senate being the upper chamber,since 1917 following the 1916 election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana,the first woman in Congress. In total,375 women have been U.S. representatives and seven more women have been non-voting delegates. As of March 7,2023,there are 125 women in the U.S. House of Representatives,making women 28.7% of the total. Of the 382 women who have served in the House,251 have been Democrats and 131 have been Republicans. One woman has been Speaker of the House,Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California.
The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE),officially the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration,is the unicameral and highest legislative organ of the Central Tibetan Administration,the government-in-exile of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It was established and is based in Dharamshala,India. The creation of this democratically elected body has been one of the major changes that the 14th Dalai Lama brought about in his efforts to introduce a democratic system of administration.
Tethong Tenzin Namgyal is a Tibetan politician and a former Prime Minister of Central Tibetan Administration.
AumDorji Choden is a Bhutanese politician. She was appointed minister of Bhutan's Works and Human Settlement Ministry in 2013,making her the first woman to serve as a minister in Bhutanese cabinet.
Peggy Flanagan is an American politician,community organizer,and Native American activist serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of Minnesota since 2019. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),Flanagan served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
Margaret Thomas Arnold Foster Greer Harris (Gordon) Amsler was a law professor in Texas. In 1955 she became the third female full law professor at a US law school,after Harriet Spiller Daggett in 1931 and Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong in 1935. She was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.
Lily Wangchuk or Lily Wangchhuk is a Bhutanese politician,diplomat and activist. A diplomat between 1994 and 2008,in November 2012 she became the first Bhutanese woman to be appointed president of a political party.
Neten Zangmo is a Bhutanese government official and politician. She headed Bhutan's Anti-Corruption Commission,and was bestowed with the title of Dasho in 2009. On 29 May 2017 she became leader of Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party. She resigned the position on September 16,2018,the day after the party failed to make the first round of voting to compete in the general election,but it took nearly two years for the BKP to accept her resignation. The party founder,Sonam Tobgay,told Bhutan Broadcasting Service that it would be difficult to replace Zangmo,who he considered the party's biggest asset. "Within the BKP family,we have high respect for her and also have expectations from her.”
References
- ↑ "First lady People's Representative", Kuensel, 1979
- ↑ First woman councilor, Leki Pemo passes away Kuensel, 25 March 2019