In the News
September 24, 2021
This pinion piece by Julie M. Statland was published in The Washington Post. It cites RepresentWomen's 2021 Gender Parity Index. Read an excerpt below.
The new school year is underway, and before first-quarter grades are out, Maryland has already received a D from Represent Women’s national 2021 Gender Parity Index.
As the report notes, “In January 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President of the United States. Twelve women have advanced into top leadership roles in President Biden’s Cabinet. A record number of women were sworn in to serve the 117th Congress.” It is particularly alarming for Maryland’s young women and girls to read those facts and realize Maryland has zero women in Congress and has never had a woman governor, comptroller or attorney general.
Even more confusing is that Wallet Hub again ranked Maryland as the second-most-educated state in the country, after Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a powerhouse female congressional delegation that includes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) and Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Katherine M. Clark and Lori Trahan (all D), while we have the big goose egg and a near-failing grade. It’s jaw-dropping, dumbfounding, maddening. Hard as it is to believe, the 2022 congressional election in Maryland could be the third consecutive cycle in which we could still end up with an all-male delegation.
Read the complete article here.
