[womenslib, hist, pols, curr ev] One Hundred Years

[siderea]

One hundred years ago today, a woman was voted into US Federal office for the first time: Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, Republican, of Montana.

THE STATE OF MONTANA

Comments

[heron61]

Well said indeed, and in roughly 48 hours we'll either have elected the first woman as president or will be facing fascist doom.

[jadia]

I went to a talk this year by Geena Davis, who has an institute for addressing gender equality. She makes the point that in all the years of trying, we haven't gotten past about 17%-20% inclusion in all sorts of arenas, including the one you mention. Interestingly, in most if not all crowd scenes shown in movies, etc., women also make up only about 17%-20% of the crowds. Especially when you factor in animations and cartoons, this is pretty ludicrous. Her premise is that this is one of the reasons why we haven't seen more gains - people get acclimated to thinking that 17%-20% is "the norm" and unconsciously bias there. So she started an institute to try to change that: http://seejane.org/about-us/