For comparison, Blacks comprise thirteen percent of the U.S. population and Hispanics twelve percent. ... While women have gained seats in Congress, this thirteen/fourteen percent composition is lacking considering women make up about half the population. As society becomes more "minority-aware- a focus has turned on a sections of the population previously hidden or unheard. ... It also suspended all literacy tests in states in which less than 50% of the voting-age population had been registered or had voted in the 1964 election. ... Women in Congress The 1992 elections were marked as the...

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