Women have more than half the good ideas. Women have more than half the problems and are probably cleaning up after the other half. When the 103rd Congress was seated in 1993, it included more women than any previous session of Congress. As of that swearing-in day in 1993, Congress started to look a little bit more like the nation it represents. Spending Priorities Women s Work Women bring lots of political and practical experience with them when they take office.
Most women still do the shopping.
We know this. But even that mundane experience is worth something women have practical experience at deciding what to buy and finding the bargains. Just 9 out of 100 senators are women and just 54 out of 435 representatives are women. That s an appalling record for one of the world s model democracies. According to the Center for the American Woman and Politics, the United States ranks 43rd in women s representation among the 106 nations with freely elected governments.