Biography

A popular labor, civil rights, and feminist activist, Abzug became the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1970. She was a 1947 graduate of Columbia Law School and the counsel for several of Sen. Josephy McCarthy's targets in the 1950s.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rogers Cadenhead <rogers@prefect.com>

Large-brimmed hats

Large-brimmed hats Member of US House of Representatives from New York, 1/3/71-1/3/77.

Survived by her two daughters and a sister.

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 1-2. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Mentioned in Cophouse (1977).

A woman's place is in the house -- the House of Representatives.

[in 1987, on her reasons for seldom being seen without a hat] When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.