"Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both." -Jeannette Rankin What is Rankin trying to say with this quote? Why is Rankin significant?

Jeannette Rankin was both a politician and a woman's right Advocate. She said this because she believed that women should be used to do jobs just like men.

Explanation: Jeannette Rankin believed that women should be equal to men. She's a very significant person because she was the first woman to be elected into Congress, in fact, she was one of the very few suffragists who was elected into Congress.