Weekend Reading on Women's Representation November 25, 2016
By Cynthia Richie Terrell on November 25, 2016
Hello friends,
Susannah Wellford - of Running Start - wrote a terrific piece in US News on how to move forward in our work together. She writes:
Our country is so deeply divided right now that I don't even recognize it. There is so much hate on both sides. A friend told me that liberals have every right to lash out – that if Clinton had won, Trump supporters would be doing the same thing. Even if that were true, it doesn't make it right and it just guarantees that hate prevails. We don't win that way.
Check out this press release from the Center for American Women in Politics for the latest update on women's representation in state legislatures in 2017 - the outcomes of some races are still unclear - women will hold between 24.7 and 25% of the seats.
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