Women also tend to bring a mood of reform, since they’re often coming from the outside. “It’s the women who in many ways feel — if you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu,” said Debbie Walsh at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “When we started, New Jersey was in the bottom 10 for women in the legislature,” said Walsh. The center’s ranking of state legislatures puts Wyoming last in the percentage of women, which is extremely sad for a place that calls itself “the Equality State” because it was the first to give women the right to vote. If this sudden interest in putting more women into office translates into action, it’ll be about time.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2017 07:21 UTC