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CrispyQ

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2. That was very comprehensive.
Thu May 21, 2015, 11:10 AM
May 2015
There’s good and bad news in the report: political representation has generally improved for women, but they have a long way to go before achieving equality.

A decade ago, women accounted for fewer than 1 in 7 members of Congress. Today, they account for nearly 1 in 5. But, at the rate of progress women have seen since 1960, IWPR estimates that women won’t achieve equal representation in Congress for another 102 years.

Women have yet to achieve 50 percent representation in any state legislature and while six states have female governors, only 36 of the 2,300 governors have ever been women



You'd never know we're half the human population.

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Very interesting. Thank you. oldandhappy May 2015 #1
That was very comprehensive. CrispyQ May 2015 #2
K&R. nt raccoon May 2015 #3
Fl. has fallen so far under Voldemort. lark May 2015 #4
Interesting stuff. Lilith Rising May 2015 #5
welcome to du niyad May 2015 #6
Thank you :) Lilith Rising May 2015 #10
k and r and bookmarking for later, in-depth reading, with thanks. niyad May 2015 #7
I Read It This Morning NikolaC May 2015 #8
Apart from the brutal cold hifiguy May 2015 #9
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