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Wow, I didn't know the gender gap in primary and secondary education had closed so much. That's incredible.
by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Wow, I didn't know the gender gap in primary and secondary education had closed so much. That's incredible.
- MuffinFlavored 8y agoWhy, in theory, isn't Congress made up of 50% women + 50% men?
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- dominotw 8y agohistorical inertia?
- xvedejas 8y agoPart of the answer might lie in seeing statistics for what percentage of congressional candidates have been women, over time.
- jacobolus 8y agoAmong Democrats, women are now up to about 40% in Congress. I could easily imagine that passing 50% in another decade or two as older members retire. But <10% on the GOP side. The short answer is: there is still a significant part of the electorate which prefers to have male representatives, and various networks and institutional structures in some parties which give men an advantage.
- meshr 8y ago> isn't Congress made up of 50% women + 50% men? it is true if Congress would be engaged in sex related questions only
- gumby 8y agoI don't see why that follows. But if it were true it would suggest that there are some important questions going unaddressed the way things are right now.
- meshr 8y agoIt was kind of joke, but why would congressman’s sex affect his decisions if he is professional? What are these important questions which are so affected by Y-chromosome?
- gumby 8y agoI don't know why you're being voted down -- perhaps people think you're trolling. Assuming you're naive, here's an example from today's paper: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/childbirth-injury-motherhood-misogyny.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/childbirth-injury... More generally: why have more than one representative at all? Because every person has a slightly different perspective based on where they're from. The wider the variety of opinions (at least to the degree they reflect the diversity of opinions -- urban/agricultural/wilderness; male, female; different levels of education and background; etc) -- the more useful the result.