Our hosts interview esteemed congresswoman from NYC Carolyn B. Maloney. Representative Maloney has been fighting the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment since winning her seat in Congress in 1992. She tells our audience that she is just as pissed (if not more pissed) as Lady Liberty herself about U.S. women losing their rights. A progressive national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues, she is currently
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Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and former Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, the first woman to hold both of these positions.
Rep. Maloney’s career has been a series of firsts. She is the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Councilmanic district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and was the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation’s most pressing economic issues. Only 18 women in history have chaired Congressional committees. Maloney is the author of Rumors of our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women’s Lives Aren’t Getting any Easier and how we can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and Our Daughters, which has been used as a textbook in women’s studies courses.
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