What I find with my fellow female members of Congress is that we tend to work very hard. While we're very focused, we can also multitask a lot better.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.
My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.
The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.
I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
Congresswomen are congresswomen - you are, sorry. And for women who want to be congressmen, there's a screw loose in their head. I'm proud of being a woman. I think 'congresswoman' is the appropriate term, and 'Madame chair' is just fine with me.
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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