Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
Congresswomen Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., left, and Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., are pictured at a news conference in Washington on July 31, 1979.
Asked by one congressman how she could be a mother of two small children and a member of Congress at the same time, she replied,"I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.″ "Pat Schroeder blazed the trail. Every woman in this house is walking in her footsteps," said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who took over from Schroeder as Democratic chair of the bipartisan congressional caucus on women's issues.
For a while, she taught a graduate-level course titled"The Politics of Poverty." She also headed the Association of American Publishers.
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