Great photo essay
Posted by David on Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 9:40 PM.
Highly recommended: Melina Mara's great photo essay Changing the face of power: Women in the U.S. Senate.
I didn't realize there were only 14 women in the US Senate -- as Mara points out, that's seven times what it was twelve years ago. Nice to see that two of them are our Washington State senators, Cantwell and Murray.
Laura Zeigen, on Monday, November 14, 2005 at 10:58 AM:
Yes, and Washington State has the highest percentage of women in your state legislature (I believe 33% - I'll have to check the citation where I think I saw that). Go Washington! :-)
Yeah, 14 women, not bad, but at this pace it will take over 100 years to get to 51 women senators!
Miz B, on Monday, November 14, 2005 at 7:56 PM:
Great photos. I was amazed to see that some of these women Senators have small children. That's gotta be intense...