By Cynthia Richie Terrell | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, sports and entertainment, judicial offices and the private sector—with a little gardening mixed in!
This week: —177 years after Seneca Falls: “… it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.”
—The Washington Post on how to make elections fairer: “Ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting, would ensure that government officials could not be elected with just a sliver of a split vote. And semi-open primaries would give independent voters, who have long been shut out of the primary process, a voice in the city’s most important races. But many of D.C.’s elected officials — who might face some real competition under this new system — are stalling the reforms.”
—Short of gender quotas, no single electoral reform at the a national level would have as much impact on electoral opportunities for women candidates as the adoption of ranked-choice voting for all elections and the Fair Representation Act in Congress. —Not a single country in the world has yet achieved full gender equality. —The presence of women alone is not enough; it must be paired with the power and opportunity to lead and legislate effectively.
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