Opening Day « The Washington Independent
Jul 31, 20206.4K Shares279.3K Views
With Jackie Speier’s election to the House — filling the seat left vacant by the death of Tom Lantos — the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers has just updated their charts about women in elective office.
They’ve got lots of data, but most interesting is this chart on the percentage of womenin office from 1979 to today. The growth is most remarkable in state legislatures, where the percentage of women has gone from 10 percent in 1979 to 23.7 percent in 2008.
Unfortunately, Speier’s first day on the new job didn’t go too well.
Welcome to Washington.
Hajra Shannon
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