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Week of
November 09, 2012 | | Estrogen Injection Women made history this week, scoring a slew of interesting firsts for Congress, including the first openly gay person in the Senate, the first Asian-American woman in the Senate, and the first Hindu in Congress. A record number of women—binders full, some might say—will serve in Congress. Four states will send women senators to Capitol Hill for the first time. New Hampshire becomes the first state to have women in all its top elected positions—a female governor, two female U.S. senators, and two women in the House. And the House will host a record total of 28 women of color, Abigail Pesta reports. Woman Problems Ahead of the election, conservative pundits seemed confident that Democrats had overplayed the idea of a Republican war on women—and equally confident that women would not turn against the GOP in fury on Election Day. Then the results came in. It quickly became clear that women hadn’t just reelected the president, but had dealt a historic blow to the religious right, helped put a record number of women in the Senate, and had become the heart of a new governing coalition. Among some conservatives, a realization has begun to set in that they need to start winning over women or get used to being a permanent minority party, writes Michelle Goldberg. | | 
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