Lady Vice President by Year 2000 (1955)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 6:27PM ;)
The November 21, 1955 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, AK) ran a short piece with the predictions of Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest. She predicted that by the year 2000 there would be three female members of the Supreme Court and a lady vice president. Priest also predicted that half of congress would be female.
Sonia Sotomayor would be the third female Supreme Court justice in U.S. history, though there has never been more than two women on the court at one time. Sotomayor's confirmation hearings are set to start July 13, 2009.
According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, there are currently 441 members of the U.S. Congress that are male (83%) and 92 that are female (17%). For more information, check out the Women in Congress website.
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Reader Comments (6)
That Inter-Parliamentary Union statistic must sweep in the Senate, as the numbers add up to 535 members, whereas the house is just 435.
You are correct. Good catch.
@Wutzke It has been corrected.
You know, if the Republicans had won last year's election, the main prediction would've been off by only 8 years. However, I don't think i want to see that kind of woman make history (know what I mean?).
Seriously. What a jackass. It must have been terrible to live in a society where blowhards like this were the norm.
Hmmm... When you look at it from the view of the past, it's rather embarrassing that we still haven't come close to meeting that prediction.
*sigh* Not that I'm advocating any random female vice president off the street (which seemed rather like what the Republicans tried to do), but it says a lot that we're so far behind expectations.