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March 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Old enough to remember when women in Congress had to fight to get a bathroom convenient to the floor. Maybe you remember, too. It was 2011!

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The architecture of the U.S. Capitol has long catered exclusively to men. The first women’s gym, before the facility was made co-ed, was inferior to the men’s gym with smaller and worse equipment. Women didn’t have locker rooms. The early bathrooms for women were small and windowless, with not enough stalls, and when they were installed there was no thought given to the possibility that more women would eventually walk the halls of power. It would take 75 years for congresswomen to have any restrooms adjacent to the Senate floor. And in 2011, nearly a century after Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress, women lawmakers got their first bathroom near the House chamber.
November 24, 2024 at 2:45 PM