I like to try and get my news from a variety of sources, and often I find some of the best articles are being written by the college papers. I had one of those "I wish I'd written it myself" moments when I saw this piece in the Minnesota Daily. Only good things can come from an article that starts out:
For women interested in politics, Minnesota might be one of the best places to run for office.
According to the author, women now hold nearly 35% of the offices in the state legislature, with over 40% of the Minnesota senate seats. Not bad numbers considering only 25 years ago the number of women in state office had gone from one to seven. But in 2005 women accounted for over 50% of the state's population, yet we've still only filled one-third of the seats. We're catching up quickly, but how long until we finally hit equal representation? With groups like Hubert H. Humphrey Center on Women and Public Policy, the Minnesota Women's Political Caucus, and more partisan groups like the DFL Feminist Caucus and Minnesota Federation of Republican Women, that shouldn't be far away at all.