Did you know that only 15% of members of the U.S. House of Representatives are female? Just 66 seats (43 Dem and 23 Rep) out of 435 total. I was totally unaware of this statistic until recently, but does that not just blow your mind?
The U.S. Senate is about the same at 14%. And because there are three states -- California, Maine and Washington -- that have two female senators, that means there are 39 states with no women in the Senate. There are 24 states with no women in the House, and 18 states with no women at all representing them at the federal level, either in the House or Senate! This means that when the congressional delegations from Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah or Vermont sit down for a friendly chat about the issues of the day, there are no women at the table.
And a bunch of the major issues right now disproportionately affect women:
(more on the flip ...)
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