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I just came up with a list of public water board officials that are elected that serve all the SGV and Whittier areas - a total of 16 agencies. Out of 81 elected officials, 13 of them are women.
That's 16 percent.
That seems really low. I wonder how that number stacks up to the city council's.
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Don't know the answer to your specific question, but I have done some research on women in state legislatures. The average state legislature is comprised of between 20 and 25% women. Some states are down around 10%, while others are up around 35% California's is up near the upper end of that range.
Women tend to comprise larger proportions when a state's legislature is less professional (shorter sessions, lower pay, smaller staffs, etc), when a state has a better educated population, and in states with larger non-white populations.
Those conclusions are pretty non-controversial. It's also possible that term limits correlates with larger proportions of women in a state's legislature, but that conclusion would be more controversial.
Posted by: Todd K | May 5, 2008 4:18 PM