As one of the youngest members in Congress, Jacobs says she's routinely mistaken for a staff member

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or an intern.

At 33, California Representative Sara Jacobs is the third youngest member in the U.S. Congress. That should be seen as an accomplishment and it usually is. But her age and gender also mean she routinely gets mistaken for a staff member or an intern.

When war broke out in Ukraine, for example, Jacobs joined a virtual call with members of Congress and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. When Zelenskyy shared a photo of the meeting online, one Twitter user asked about the identity of the “random woman” sitting next to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. “Probably his daughter or granddaughter or assistant or something,” another user responded. And that wasn’t the first time that week that Jacobs was mistaken for an intern, a lawmaker’s relative, or someone other than an elected official.

As a former employee of the U.S. State Department and a foreign policy advisor to Secretary Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign, Jacobs has the acumen to back up her role on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Yet it’s not her experience that people see first — it’s her age and her gender.

For most women in leadership positions, this is a tale as old as time. But it’s one that must be told because the average age of members of the U.S. House is roughly 58. Out of 537 members of the House and Senate, only 149 — less than 30% — are women.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sara-jacobs-congress-intern