Textbook Reading
Women, Politics and American Society
It's unfortunate that the information in the reading is all true, but there is no help for it at the moment. The barriers are slowly being broken down but we need something to blow them apart. I had never heard of the idea of multimember districts and I think that it actually works out well, if not better, then our one person per district system. It would increase representation of different people, two opposite people could be from the same district which would greatly increase the chance of everyone in the district being accounted for and fairly represented. This would also make the political system itself less formidable
To change to a multimember system would be a huge effort and a lot of people would be against it because it would make things more difficult for them possibly, that is for people already in politics. It would possibly also make politics more family friendly, making them less cut-throat and "either-or". Reading about Jane Swift was inspirational, doing conferences from her hospital bed, and it would be interesting to talk to anyone who was on the other end of the conference calls and see what they thought. It's really too bad that she was pushed out, and I think rather unfair, but maybe she'll run again in the future.
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