CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Since 1917, when Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman to serve in Congress, a total of 423 women have served as U.S. Representatives, Delegates, Resident Commissioners, or Senators.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1964, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith declared her candidacy for the Republican nomination for president, becoming the first woman to actively seek the presidential nomination of a major political party. Smith served in the Senate from 1949 to 1971, following a decade of service in the House of Representatives.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber, since 1917 following the 1916 election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress.

Detailed explanation-4: -Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, of the mostly unrecognized and now defunct Tuvan People’s Republic, is regarded as “first ever elected woman head of state in the world". She became the chairwoman of the country’s presidium in 1940.