Closing the Gender Gap in American Politics

I chose to write about this editorial titled “Editorial: Political Gender Gap Closing Too Slow.” I found this editorial interesting because of this years presidential campaigns. For the first time in American history, a woman was considered as a legitimate contender for the honor of being The President of The United States of America.
This is an editorial on research done by two assistant/associate professors from respected American Universities. The research was done by conducting surveys across the nation by way of mail and were sent to thousands of citizens in various fields such as buissness, law, politics, and education. I feel that this variety of knowledge was appropriate for conducting an experiment on the gender gap in American politics.
The research found that roughly a quarter of the state and national political jobs are held by women, such as representatives and legislators. However, there are only 9 female governors and 10 female Mayors out of the largest 100 American cities. I on the otherhand do not find this startling. Sadly, women have only been holding political titles for a fraction of the time men have and I believe these numbers are a lot higher than previous years. Although the Secretary of State and the Majority House Speaker are both females, women for the most part are not holding office in higher American politics. However, after seeing these inspiring numbers, I do feel that this will be changing drastically in the next quarter Century.
After reading this editorial, you will see that America needs to work harder on closing this gender gap in American politics. America ranks 84th in ranking their women in politics just at 16.3%, placing behind desolate countries such as Rowanda and Cuba. Moreover, I hope to see a strong push to close this gender gap in the near future and I strongly believe that research such as this will be an eye opener to necessary changes in our political system.