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Now GOP women complaining re: lack of GOP female pols? Still too little too late

Filed Under Gender, Government, Ohio, Politics, Sexism, Statehouse, Women | 4 Comments

I’ve been writing about the GOP female elected problem for literally years – including two pieces last summer on how the RNC’s Young Guns have no gunnettes:

GOP continues to starve female leadership pipeline: Sessions’ Young Guns are 12 men, 1 woman

UPDATE: National Federation of Republican Women comments on men outgunning women in “Young Guns”

And just yesterday I blogged about how TIME magazine’s “10 Scott Browns” includes just two women, both of whom are from already very reliable states regarding the support of women in leadership.

And last week I wrote about how South Carolina’s first lady, Jenny Sanford, spent several minutes addressing the lack of women in nearly all areas of South Carolina’s elected government.

So this GOP Still Short on Women thing? Please. (Anyone remember this lame-0 response from Ohio Senate’s Bill Harris from 2007 re: why there are nearly no GOP women in that chamber? In that item, even then-outgoing GOP state senator Joy Padgett said, “It’s important to have several women in the caucus. When you’re looking at representing populations, there just aren’t enough women in the chamber, period.”) Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:31 am February 3rd, 2010 in Gender, Government, Ohio, Politics, Sexism, Statehouse, Women | 4 Comments 

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Multi-tasking, multi-limbed

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Yes, the tree is really named “Jill.” My nine-year old called me over this morning while he was reading the Diversions section of the Plain Dealer and said, “Here’s one for you mom types” or something like that.  Of course, it was my son who had to be taken to school early today to get to his council meeting.  I told him I thought we should start a podcast or web show called, iCouncil. There is a third frame to this Pajama Diaries cartoon, but I thought it fed too much into stereotypes just to get a smile.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:18 am February 3rd, 2010 in Humor, leadership, Media, Parenting, Women | 6 Comments 

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