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gender gap, there is still a severe deficit of women participating in politics and public service. Only 16 percent of women make up both the U S. House of Representatives and Senate and according to the Center for American Women and Politics, only 24.3 percent of state legislators are women and in U.S. cities with populations over 30,000,16.9 percent of mayors are women.
Needless to say, these percentages are not representative of the gender breakdown in the United States. If a more equal balance of men and women served in public office, policy could be better suited to the interests of all Americans.
However, despite the desire for policy to better reflect the interests of the female U.S. population, women do not run for office as often as men do. Jennifer Lawless, Director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University and Richard Fox of Loyola Marymount University respond to this unfortunate
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