{"id":886,"date":"2008-06-05T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-06-05T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:30:00","slug":"ruth-mandel-on-not-so-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/05\/ruth-mandel-on-not-so-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Mandel on Not-So-Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEib-O6mhgI\/AAAAAAAABhA\/FeVRdm9YxUg\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEib-O6mhgI\/AAAAAAAABhA\/FeVRdm9YxUg\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>NCRW Plenary &#8211; Post #1<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Mandel, Eagleton Institute of Politics, is moderating.  Snippets from Mandel:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been reading nonstop about this emotionally, analytically demanding election.  When you start your professional career at something called the Center for American Women and Politics at a time when women were fewer than 5 percent of all elected leaders in the country, and then you watch someone run and be taken seriously as a potential presidential nominee by one of the major parties, that, certainly, is coming a distance.  But we still have a long distance to go.  We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started this year at the Center by looking at that number 16 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 16 women in the Senate.  That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even a quarter.  Thirty-seven years after we opened the Center, what does this mean?  Sixteen used to be a good number \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sweet 16.  Not so sweet anymore when we think about that as a level that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen to arrive at in the political leadership arena after so many years, so much work, so much effort.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Later, Mandel lists the questions on everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s minds:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8220;What was the impact of gender on HRC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race?<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">What will HRC do next? What should she do next?<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">What will HRC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voters do next?<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">What has she achieved beyond this campaign?  What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the legacy of the campaign?<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Has HRC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s run opened paths for women going into politics?  Or has it deterred women from deciding to run, after seeing how she was treated?<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Why didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t more young people see HRC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s run as something they wanted to be a part of?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRW Plenary &#8211; Post #1 Ruth Mandel, Eagleton Institute of Politics, is moderating. Snippets from Mandel: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been reading nonstop about this emotionally, analytically demanding election. When you start your professional career at something called the Center for American Women and Politics at a time when women were fewer than 5 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,10745,431],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-political-campaigns","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}