White men make up just 31% of the American population, but hold 65% of public elected offices, according to a jarring new study released by the Reflective Democracy Campaign, a project of the Women Donors Network. Women, despite comprising more than half the population, fill only 29% of the 42,000 local, state and national offices surveyed. The race ratio is even worse. Nine out of 10 elected officials are white, despite people of color accounting for more than 37% of the population. Women of color are hardest hit: They make up 19% of the population (about 62 million people), but hold a mere 4% of public offices. There are no women of color in the U.S. Senate today, and neither Democrats or Republicans have nominated a minority woman in any of this falls 36 Senate races.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:01 +0000
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