"Progressive" New Jersey
The AP reports the “progressive” state of New Jersey remains disproportionately underrepresented by women in politics. Some statistics to illustrate the gender gap:
There are no women in New Jersey's 15-member Congressional delegation.
New Jersey ranks 41st of the 50 states in the number of women in the state Legislature.
Just 15.8 percent of New Jersey's state lawmakers are women: 19 women out of 120 Legislators. That's about the same percentage as in 1927.
New Jersey has had only one female governor - Christine Todd Whitman - in its 218-year history.
Fifty-seven percent of the people who vote are women.
Posted by Enlighten-NewJersey @ 2:00 AM
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3 Comments:
Maybe it's due to a lower propensity for corruption among New Jersey women. Because they are less likely to be corrupt, they are less likely to desire a position in which they could benefit from corrupt practices.
Very odd indeed. It'd be interesting, although horribly controversial, to examine the demographics of states such as New Jersey that lack women politicians versus those that have many.
The results might show similarities between states like New Jersey and countries such as France, Italy, Spain, and much of southwestern Europe, where woman are largely unrepresented in government. Similarly, it might show that states that do have many woman in government are ethnically linked to European countries that have long championed women's rights such as Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Holland (mainly northern europe).
Again, controversial, but not necessarily untrue.
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