Looked at Press Conference-Looked like Saudi Arabia. How many women were there?

[terisan]

are the upper echelons of our governmental/corporate/finance/media-press conglomerate mainly composed of men interacting with men?

If so, might that not be a major source of our problems ?

[msongs]

1. were the women all covered head to foot with burkhas? no? oops not saudi arabia then nt

[terisan]

4. Thanks....as long as we don't wear burkas we surely must be equally represented-so relieved. nt

[Hissyspit]

2. Helen Thomas was there? Anne Compton was asked a question.

Could there have been more women there? Sure.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Valerie Jarret too. n/t

[Snotcicles]

3. I thought women were well represented. nt

[terisan]

6. Were there about 50 % I know women in Congress are only 17%. nt

[woo me with science]

5. well...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5324569

[terisan]

9. Is that our standard? We have more women at Major Press Conferences than Saudi Arabia

Yeah!

I think we should have around 50% which would be less than the proportion of women in our population.

[Occam Bandage]

8. Why doesn't Obama do something about the shameful fact

that in a group of people, it is possible and in fact even likely that there will be gender imbalance? I think it is an absolute betrayal of women that he has not passed a law demanding that in any gathering of ten or more people, no fewer than 48% and no more than 52%, rounded to the nearest digit, may be women.

[TahitiNut]

10. Well ... when he goes upstairs it's three-on-one.

:evilgrin:

[terisan]

13. Who said anything about Obama. I am talking about Reporters at News Agencies.

When women are only 17% of House and Senate , about 12% of Supreme Court, and have never in over 200 years held elective office in the high Executive Branch it is , I think a problem.

I noticed that it may be a problem in serious news media also.

Are you triviaizling gender equity? or just being light-hearted?

[Rage for Order]

22. Then do something about it

Run for Congress, run for the Senate, run for your city council or mayor. Rather than griping about it, take action. :shrug:

[terisan]

24. Not griping, asking for opinion; getting the range of how Democrats perceive the issue

and trying to formulate responses to get to maybe another level.

In terms of the press conferences I am thinking we might get more questions raised about things that are often perceived as "women's issues' (although many men care immensely about them too--but may be less likely to raise them at press conferences).

[SoCalDem]

15. New media probably sends whom they want to send..there were women there

just not 50%..

[terisan]

17. Looked like lots less than 50% . Women are less than 17% of Congress. Supreme Ct has only one

[SoCalDem]

23. Not surprising to me.. Rich, old white men have been in charge for a very long time

:)

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

11. The major source of our problems is not using correct solutions.

[terisan]

16. How do we get correct solutions if we don't have full participation of all the people?

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

19. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a 50 - 50 ratio of men and

women, I'm just saying that a good solution works because it's a good one, not how many men or women made it.

[TahitiNut]

12. It's likely that your perspective would change if you were watching from Saudi Arabia.

:eyes:

[terisan]

14. Am I supposed to be satisfied with less-than-equal because it may be worse elsewhere?

In Rwanda woman are now a majority in Parliament. Perhaps we might gain from taking their perspective.

[Occam Bandage]

18. I would hold off on the geographical similies. nt

[TahitiNut]

20. Gandhi said "be the change you wish to see in the world." So, run for Congress or ...

... vote for Sarah Palin in 2012. :shrug: People migrate all over the world for greener pastures, too, so you could go to Rwanda.


:eyes:

[cloudbase]

21. The opportunity is there.

Equal opportunity doesn't imply equality of results.