Welcome to the First Impeachment in the Era of Female Power

The impeachment of Donald Trump is being driven by women at every level

Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Published in
4 min readDec 18, 2019

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WWhen Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, women in the United States could not vote. It would be another 12 years before the first woman to hold federal office was even born.

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Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Writer for

Executive Editor, GEN by Medium. Previously: Yahoo News, The Atlantic, The Washington Post. garance-at-medium-dot-com.