Gabrielle Zevin
Hey yourself! Here are some numbers:
Women are 50.8% of the population, and they make up a whopping 58.3% of the US civilian labor force.
Yet, in 2018, women occupied around 20% of the seats in the US House, and 23% of the seats in the US Senate. Just under half of all states have never elected a female governor, including New York, the state where I was born, and California, the state where I currently live. 96.5% of all supreme court judges have been men. And yes, because I know you were thinking about it -- women still earn 80.5 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Can it really be a representational democracy if the government doesn't reflect the people who live there? I think about this a lot, don't you?
Women are 50.8% of the population, and they make up a whopping 58.3% of the US civilian labor force.
Yet, in 2018, women occupied around 20% of the seats in the US House, and 23% of the seats in the US Senate. Just under half of all states have never elected a female governor, including New York, the state where I was born, and California, the state where I currently live. 96.5% of all supreme court judges have been men. And yes, because I know you were thinking about it -- women still earn 80.5 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Can it really be a representational democracy if the government doesn't reflect the people who live there? I think about this a lot, don't you?
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Gabrielle Zevin:
"The NPC" is one of my favorite chapters, not just because it's such an emotional and complete chapter, but because it keeps me coming back to decipher every sentence to see if I missed any message or new meaning to take away from it. But I have to know, how did you come up with the metaphor of Marx flying through the field? What does him being a bird at the beginning and end of the chapter signify exactly?
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