In this week's Weekend Reading on Women's Representation: How countries can update their electoral rules and remove the structural barriers that women face in politics; Ranked Choice Voting continues to gain steam around the country, and more:
is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment!is growing! As Cynthia Richie Terrell—the regular writer of this column—is away this week, this Weekend Reading is brought to you by our team. I recently asked a friend of mine why she thought there were so few women in politics.
“[The team] kept having these conversations over and over again—there’s a lot of interventions that we’re seeing that are often very successful in trying to get more women to run for the state legislature level or local office. But we are not seeing dramatic changes in the actual overall level of women’s representation in the United States.
The U.S. is not alone in this. Gender bias exists all over the world, and can be especially powerful in countries like Mexico where there is a strong sense of traditional values instilled in the culture. Attitude barriers can be the toughest to change, and imagining changing the attitude of an entire nation or culture is overwhelming.encouraging, though, is that countries are taking important steps to update their electoral rules to remove thefor the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
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