December 17, 2016
Working Women/Women’s Work: A View from Washington
By Hannah Cleeton Professional women must perform a balancing act the church doesn”t prepare them to handle. A recent profile of the 114th Congress by the Congressional Research Service found women hold 108 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, up from 82 seats in the 109th Congress 10 years earlier.1 As it becomes more common for women to run for and hold public office, that number will continue to climb. The statistic does not take into account women who work behind the scenes in the various House and Senate offices, as I do. In my
