website created by Alison
Hayes
Providence College
'04
Women and Democracy. Sadly,
the most "democratic" nation in the world has not yet achieved
proportional representation of women in its democratic institutions. In
1998, the United States ranked fiftieth among
the 132 countries surveyed by the United Nations. In this critical indicator
of women's empowerment, just 12.9 percent of the seats in the U.S. House
of Representatives, and nine Senate seats were occupied by women.
Women's Empowerment in other Nations.
Inter-
Parliamentary Union
Filipino
Women in Politics
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics
"The Year of the Woman". The proportion of women in Congress increased from six percent in 1991 to ten percent in 1993. As a result of this increase, 1992 has often been coined "The Year of the Woman". There were more women in this year running for, and winning, public office than there ever had been in the past. There was an expectation that this political victory for women would be a turning point in history and would further advance their goals toward political parity in United States government. Unfortunately, this triumph was in fact more of a milestone than it was a turning point. More...
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Research Paper. We predict that the number of women serving in state legislatures in the year 2001 is higher than it was in 1996. The three variables we have chosen to test this hypothesis are education, political culture, and the percentage of republican state legislators serving in a particular state. |
Organizations for Women in United States
Government.
Women's Campaign
Fund
Women's Leadership
Forum of the Democratic National Committee
National
Federation of Republican Women
Women's Legislative
Network
Women
and Politics- a quarterly journal of research and policy studies
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