Global Journalist

Global Journalist: Gender Quotas on the March


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Christine Blasey Ford was 100 percent certain Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school. Kavanaugh was 100 percent certain he didn’t. But one figure that jumped out during Kavanaugh's recent U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings was this: 23 percent. That’s the percentage of women in the U.S. Senate, the body that voted to narrowly confirm him. Indeed the U.S. ranks 103 rd in the world in the share of women in national legislatures – behind countries like Saudi Arabia,
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Global JournalistBy Jason McLure

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