Women’s Equality

· Our party has a long history of supporting women’s rights, from a Republican becoming the first woman in Congress, to Republicans pushing the 19th Amendment past a Southern Democrat filibuster to give women the national right to vote, to Ronald Reagan appointing the first woman Justice of the Supreme Court.

· I believe Republicans should continue to lead by advocating for zero tolerance policies on sexual harassment in schools and the workplace, protecting girls’ and women’s sports, supporting girls and women to pursue college majors historically underrepresented by women, and fully utilizing federal powers to give police support in investigating and prosecuting rape, including the elimination of backlogs in rape kit testing nationwide.