The Senate’s Women Of Color
Mazie Hirono of Hawaii welcomes three new colleagues.
Democrats may be in shock nationally because of the results of the presidential election, but there was some good news聽in the U.S. Senate.
While Republicans maintain control of the chamber, U.S. Mazie Hirono will no longer be the only woman of color.
As have reported,聽California Attorney General Kamala Harris聽(part African American and part Indian-American), Illinois聽Rep. Tammy Duckworth聽(born in Thailand to an American father and a Thai mother, with substantial ties to Hawaii) and former聽Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto聽(Hispanic) will add a little diversity to the mostly white male Senate.
CBS News says, “The three join Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono, who immigrated from Japan when she was seven years old. Hirono, elected in 2013, is the only woman of color currently serving in the upper chamber, and only the second non-white woman to be elected to the Senate. (The first was Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, in office between 1993 and 1999.)”
And this: “According to a count by EMILY鈥檚 List, the 115th Congress will be the most diverse in history because of Democratic women of color.”
So, take that, glass ceiling.
