Women and Politics

…what would be different? Probably a lot.

Just some food for thought—if women had an equal voice in our country’s leadership, would we:

• Be in our current financial crisis?
• Have started all these wars?
• Still be fighting about health care reform?
• See all the backlash against women’s reproductive health choices?
• Continue to ignore the impending ramifications of our environmental impact?

Last night, my karate sensei said some of these very words to me. That’s right—my male karate instructor who is a human lethal weapon and spends 90 minutes yelling at us to be stronger and faster—pointed out that we might not be in all the trouble we’re in if women had an equal leadership role in this country.

If he and my 93 year-old grandfather can see the clear, common-sense, and urgent need for more women in public office, why can’t the rest of the country?

Why has our progress of electing more women stagnated in the past few years? Why don’t more women support women candidates? These are questions we all must answer and work to fix if we truly want to see our country choose a path of strength and prosperity for our future.