Towards electing women for the achievement of Equal Representation -- in a country where women hold a measly 23.7% of all seats in the U.S. Congress, well below the 30 percent benchmark set by the U.N. and chronically about 90th in the world for electing women (if you count the ties)...We are going to call it like it is and let the chips fall where they may!
The number of women in Congress increased by 4% for a total of 23.7%...more than ever before! But how do we compare with the rest of the world?
USA still well under the 30 percent benchmark for participation by women! (56 countries have reached and surpassed that goal.)
Click HERE to access "SMOKE & MIRRORS: The Truth About the Political Status of U.S. Women" on smashwords.com..
posted by PAULAX5050 @ 2:57 PM
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Currently, there are 12 states that do not send any women to either House of the 116th Congress -- meaning that the women in those states are not represented and have NO VOICE in the body where our laws are made, even though they are the majority and pay taxes.
2018 Election Results: 12 states (24%)* still with no women in Congress! (116th Congress: 102 women in the House [+4 non-voting], 25 in the Senate = 23.7% total...a 4% increase.
Those states are: AR, ID, KY, LA, MD, MT, ND, RI, SC, SD, UT and VT...Four (4) states -- Alaska, Mississippi, Nebraska and Tennessee -- do not have any women members in the U.S. House of Representatives, but do have a woman in the U.S. Senate. (Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is the first woman from Mississippi to have been elected to either house of Congress!)
NOTE: When the ill-fated and dangerous debate on Social Security started in 2005, only 15% of the U.S. Congress was made up of women. And when healthcare was debated in 2009-10, only 16.8% of the seats were held by women...the number is now up to 23.7% but still not enough (see below).
QUESTION: How long will it take the U.S. to reach the minimum critical mass number of 30% advocated by the United Nations for the election of women to national legislatures?
Click HERE to access "SMOKE & MIRRORS: The Truth About the Political Status of U.S. Women" on smashwords.com..
posted by PAULAX5050 @ 2:47 PM
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Paula Xanthopoulou served for 9 years on the Miami-Dade County Commission for Women, 2 terms as president of the National Women's Political Caucus of Florida (01-05), and on NWPC’s National Board - also working on several high-profile campaigns, and was a guest speaker for the Bolivian Women's Political Caucus in La Paz. In '07, her essay “Equal Representation: Common Denominator, Common Cause” was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in Women Moving Forward (St. Thomas Univ.). Her eye-opening eBook "SMOKE & MIRRORS: The Truth About the Political Status of U.S.Women" was recently published on smashwords.com. Paula publishes/maintains equalrepresentation.org as a hub for strategies like “Every OPEN SEAT a Woman’s Seat” and related issues/information.
