Congressional Caucus on Women’s Issues Protests Low Number of Women at IRS
The Congressional Caucus on Women’s Issues sent a letter to President Ronald Reagan on this day to protest the low number of women employed at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The letter noted that only 9 of 257 senior executive positions at the IRS were held by women. The occasion for the letter was the creation of 3,310 new positions for the IRS.
The National Women’s Political Caucus was organized on July 10, 1971.
Learn more about the women’s rights movement: Gail Collins, When Everything Changed (2009)
See the table of women in the U.S. Congress in 2021 here
Read: Joyce Sterling and Linda Chanow, In Their Own Words: Experienced Women Lawyers Explain Why They Are Leaving Their Law Firms and the Profession (American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession 2021)