When women are in elected office, issues that affect women garner more attention.
in Forbes describing the importance of using intersectional measures to assess women’s political representation. This article conveys the grim reality that women’s representation in all levels of political office is deficient, especially for Black, Latina and Native American women.
To accurately assess the complex barriers women in politics face, the measures assessing women’s representation must account for diversity and the apparent differences between states. By comparing the proportion of women by racial/ethnic group in each state’s legislature with the proportion of women of that race/ethnicity in the population, it shows that the dominant reality for women across racial/ethnic groups is underrepresentation. However, there is important variance in where and to what degree women of different groups face representational disparities in state government.
State-level and race-specific data provide more clarity in identifying gaps in representation and better guidance for targeted interventions. They also reveal where the gaps between political and population representation are largest for each community of women.
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