If you followed the 2006 elections, you witnessed a few “ceilings” fall.
If you followed the 2006 elections, you witnessed a few “ceilings” fall.
If you watch the 2008 presidential election, you’ll hopefully see what’s left of the “marble ceiling” crash to the ground.
As Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House in United States history, so proudly proclaimed after the Democratic majority took over, “for our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.”
The United States is unmatched in political inequality in terms of racial and gender under-representation. According to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the United States ranks 66th worldwide in terms of women holding office in the national legislature, just ahead of the country of Turkmenistan. Some countries that have greater representation include brand-new democracies such as the esteemed governments of Afghanistan and Iraq.
