[LMB] OT: Bitter old feminist

[Tzivia Adler]

>> > 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)
>
 > Regards, Pete
>

i'm not sure percentage of candidates winning is valid.  how many men don't 
get to be candidates because they don't know enough of the 'right' people to 
jumpstart their campaigns, vs how many do?  how many women?

teachers seldom campaign for office.  janitors seldom campaign for office. 
doctors, nurses, secretaries....  there seem to be a few jump-off points 
from which one can start teh campaign trail.  the legal profession seems to 
be well represented, how many elected candidates studied law vs. how many 
others?

as long as women get shunted from high school - and earlier - to low key 
jobs and/or house keeping, there will be less women running for office and 
the righteous majority can say, see?  women aren't in office because they 
don't -want- to be in office!  lets not worry their pretty little heads 
about these little laws that affect their daily lives...

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

ziviya, now wondering how many elected officicals really started off as 
lawyers and how one would find out.