notes women are making progress at the federal, state and city levels of government beyond household names like Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, listing 11 high-profile politicians of note, including Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»’s own Hannah Beth Jackson ’71.
From her post in the California legislature the past four years, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»alum Hannah Beth Jackson has championed women’s issues such as paid family leave, child care programs and stronger responses to sexual assaults on community college campuses. Jackson, a member of the California State Senate representing the 19th District, was responsible for creating the Fair Pay Act that was signed into law in mid-October 2015 that has been described as the “nation’s strongest equal pay law.”