[LMB] OT: Bitter old feminist

[Anita]

On Nov 30, 2007 9:02 AM, Tzivia Adler <tadler at yeshivanet.com> wrote:

> >> > By what standard can one determine if feminism has succeeded or not?
> >>
> >>What proportion of Senators and Representatives in the US Congress are
> >>women?
> >
> > What percentage of candidates for office are women?  What percentage
> > of them win (as opposed to the men)?  (snip rest of post)
> >
> In Australia the new Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard is the highest
> woman in politics EVER. A far larger number of women of a variety of
> backgrounds including a lesbian have been chosen as cabinet ministers.


More on this here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/exciting-defining-times-for-women/2007/11/30/1196394620994.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

>
>
>  the legal profession seems to
> be well represented, how many elected candidates studied law vs. how many
> others?

is this true in non u.s. counties?  (since we have established on some other
> thread that we have many international listies :) )


I don't know how much that is true in Australia. Iestyn? Do you know?

Anita