Nancy McDonald

Recent Activity

• 

  Nancy commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Top Ten Moments of Feminism in 2008

  2008 was certainly an exciting and historic election year.  But there is much more work to be done.  With all the attention around Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidential nomination and Sarah Palin’s campaign for vice president, there has been less focus on women running for other offices.  Although the number of women in the US Congress will increase in 2009, there are 19 states that will not be represented by a woman in either house of Congress – up from 16 states before the 2008 election.  In 2008, these 16 states had no women in either the US House or Senate: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, and Vermont.  As a result of the election, three more states will have no women in Congress: New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia.