Proof That Women Are the Better Dealmakers in the Senate
A couple of enterprising Harvard University students have uncovered proof of what women in the United States Senate have long suspected and claimed: They really are better than men at working together, passing bills and cutting bipartisan deals.
Inspired by a recent article in The New York Times about women in the Senate, Quorum, an Internet start-up founded by two Harvard seniors that analyzes legislative data for corporate clients, put its number-crunchers to work. It’s a little bit wonky, but stick with it. Over the past seven years, the Quorum analysis found, the average female senator co-sponsored 6.29 bills with another Senate woman, while the average male senator co-sponsored 4.07 bills with another Senate man.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/02/19/in-the-senate-women-are-better-dealmakers-than-men-heres-proof/