Why the US is behind when it comes to women in politics

[niyad]

(we are soooooo far behind other countries in gender equality)

Why the US is behind when it comes to women in politics
We explain why even a record number of women running in this year's US elections isn't enough.

Remember the millions of people around the world who stood up for women's rights after Donald Trump was sworn in as president?

That momentum has emboldened nearly 600 women to run for office in the United States.

But the US still trails behind most other countries in political gender equality, as women make up less than 20 percent of the US Congress.

Why are so few women elected?

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2018/10/women-politics-181013063358891.html

On this Reality Check, we explain why even a record number of women running in this year's US elections isn't enough.

[GitRDun]

1. I hope significant progress is made this cycle

With enough women elected, perhaps we can get to a tipping point where some of the rules other countries use can be enacted.

The lack of empathy we see in this Congress should be reason enough for anyone to decide huge change is needed.

Thanks for posting!

[niyad]

2. you are most welcome.

please look at the article on Ethiopia, where women are now 50 percent of the new cabinet. we are so damned far behind.

[sandensea]

3. We need what a lot of other democracies have: A women's quota.

In many other places, parties are rquired by law to have at least a certain percentage (typically one third) of all candidates in any given election cycle to be women.

Some also require a minimum percentage actually elected.

And they don't require this merely out of fairness: they've found that more women in legislatures almost always translates to more work getting done, less obstruction and other shenanigans, and less extremism.

But there's little hope of anything like that being enacted here in the U.S.

Just try getting that passed through all the Brett Kavanaughs in the GOP.

[niyad]

4. that was one of the things pointed out in the video--the determined efforts to bring

gender equality in the governments of those countries. what a concept!

[sandensea]

5. I had that kind of power, I'd get that passed on Phyllis Schlafly's birthday.

If wishes were horses.

[niyad]

6. ohhh, I do like the way you think!! never could stand that pearl-accessorized gender traitor.