Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women's and family rights during long career in U.S. Congress, dies at 82
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Schroeder was elected by Colorado voters in 1972 and then reelected 11 times, becoming one of the most influential Democrats and feminists in Congress.
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A pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, former Colorado Rep. Pat Schroeder, has died at the age of 82. Schroeder’s former press secretary, Andrea Camp, says Schroeder suffered
Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
Colorado Rep. Pat Schroeder was best known for getting a family leave bill passed, providing job protection for care of a newborn, sick child or parent.
Schroeder was elected by Colorado voters in 1972 and then reelected 11 times, becoming one of the most influential Democrats and feminists in Congress.
Pat Schroeder, a former Colorado representative and pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died Monday night, her former staffer announced.
Former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a megaphone for the women’s movement, the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee and a liberal Democrat, died March 13 at a hospital in Celebration, Fla.
By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN Former US Rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, a longtime Democratic congresswoman who championed women’s rights, has died. She was 82. Schroeder died Monday night in a hospital in Celebration, Florida, surrounded by her family, her daughter, Jamie Cornish, confirmed to CNN…
Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years — shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder of Colorado, who helped usher in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and left her mark as one of the few women in Congress when she was first elected in 1972, died Monday at 82.
According to her former press secretary, Schroeder recently suffered a stroke and died at a hospital in Celebration, Florida; the city where she had been residing in recent years.
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