Women in Elected Office
Cynthia Terrell talked about Representation 2020's report, The State of Women's Representation 2015-2016: A Blueprint for Reaching Gender Parity, which shows women are underrepresented in national, state, and local-level elected offices. She also examined possible solutions to achieve parity.
Description
Cynthia Terrell talked about Representation 2020's report, The State of Women's Representation 2015-2016: A Blueprint for Reaching Gender Parity, which shows women are underrepresented in national, state, and local-level elected offices. She also examined possible solutions to achieve parity.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Where does the U.S rank intentionally for women representation? Describe the statistics of the number of women in elected office, nationally and locally, in the United States.
- Explain the progress the U.S. has been made over the last century with women in elected office.
- Why does Cynthia Terrell argue that we need structural changes to increase women in elected office? What are some of the structural changes she mentioned?
- According to Cynthia Terrell, why aren’t more women being elected into office?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Incumbency
- Parity
- Partisan
- Stagnation
- Suffrage