Feeling Rebloggy
(Source: In U.K.)
(Source: In U.K.)
Many candidates who are women of colour are motivated by opposition to President Trump. Most run as Democrats, although they may express disagreements with the party’s leadership. But the movement is also shaped by the fact that women of colour are now emerging as the country’s most influential voting bloc.
According to the US government’s National Center for Education Statistics, black women are now the most educated group in the US, measured by percentage of people with a degree, and they are translating this asset into political action. Black voters made up 29 per cent of the electorate in Alabama’s special Senate election in 2017, with 98 per cent of black women voting for the Democratic candidate Doug Jones, a striking increase from previous elections.
[Last year,] ...has in many ways been “the year of the woman”. The successful fight of women in Saudi Arabia for their right to drive, the global #MeToo movement, and the uprise of women in Ireland against the abortion ban demonstrate how widespread the struggle for equal and fair representation has become. But the experiences of previous “years of the woman” in the 1970s and in 1992 (the year in which a number of women were elected to the US Senate, and Anita Hill brought sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas), could suggest some cautious [skepticism.]
While both 1970 and 1992 did bring significant advancements for women, they fell short of fundamentally altering the structures and power imbalances that are both still the manifestation and the cause of inequality and discrimination today...
~Wired.Co.UK
Read More: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/government-women-of-colour?
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