It's Women's History Month, an apt time to talk to formidable women in Congress and the civil rights movement.

The Women of the 118th Congress are being recognized as a group as part of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year program, a ...

With the arrival on Capitol Hill soon of Rep.-elect Jennifer McClellan, a record number of women will be serving in Congress.

Despite holding 29 percent of the seats in today's Congress, women have only 17 percent of committee leadership positions ...

Vice President Kamala Harris was apparently very selective when it came to the female trailblazers she honored in a video ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rebecca Roberts about her biography of First Lady Edith Wilson, Untold Power. After President ...

After mixed midterm election results, Black women are demanding the Democratic Party step up political and financial support ...

Earlier in March, the month that honors women's history, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and other congressional leaders ...

Asked by one congressman how she could be a mother of two small children and a member of Congress at the same time, she ...

Schroeder's former press secretary, Andrea Camp, said Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died at a hospital in Florida, ...

Schroeder was elected by Colorado voters in 1972 and then reelected 11 times, becoming one of the most influential Democrats ...

Democrat Jennifer McClellan , holding the receipt for a poll tax her father once had to pay tucked into the pages of a family Bible, was sworn into the U.S.