%0 Journal Article 
%A Juan Rubio, Antonio Daniel
%A García Conesa, Isabel María
%T Mujeres hispanas en el 116º Congreso: representatividad y diversidad
%D 2020
%@ 1889-5611
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/43818
%X Women have been present at the US Congress for more than a century. In fact, the first female congresswoman was the Republican Jeannette Rankin (Montana) in 1916. However, it has been in these last decades when the presence of women has been noticed in a significant number. Nearly two-thirds of all women elected to Congress since Rankin’s time have been elected since 1992, and almost half of them since 1998. When the 116th Congress was inaugurated on January 3rd, 2019, women constituted almost a fourth of it, the highest percentage in the entire history of the nation. In turn, the current Congress has the highest number of Hispanics in its
history. The House of Representatives has 42 Latino members among its ranks, of which 28 are men and 14 women, while in the Senate there are four Hispanic senators, three men and one woman. In this article, we will analyze the growing presence of Hispanic representatives in the 116th Congress, indicating their most relevant positions and functions, and we will focus more specifically on the relevance of the Latino women representatives who are serving in both Houses of the US Congress.

%K 116º Congreso
%K Representación hispana
%K Mujeres hispanas
%K Diversidad y representación
%K 116th Congress
%K Hispanic representation
%K Hispanic women
%K Diversity and representation
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Historia
%K History
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%K Filología
%K Philology
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