Psssh-Woman.jpg (JPEG Image, 559x600 pixels) - Scaled (93%) Women's Rights. Feminist Majority. BlogHer. Feministing | Young Feminists Blogging, Organizing, Kicking Ass. The Feminist eZine - 1001 Feminist Links and Other Interesting Topics. Ms. Magazine Online | More Than A Magazine - A Movement. Bitch Magazine | Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross | Women, Sex Advice, How to Orgasm, Masturbation, Relationships. Science & Nature - Sex ID. Robin Lakoff: Day of the Women. A remarkable number of women achieved success in today's primary elections. But what do their victories suggest about the current status of women in U.S. politics, and elsewhere, at this time?
I think there are several possible answers, any, all, or none of which may be true. First, the predominance of women might just be the result of a series of coincidences. Each of the candidates won for a different reason. There are no generalizations, nothing linking one victory to another. Perhaps women and men have always had equal interest in and talent for electoral politics, but only now have women become able to make full use of those interests and talents.
Or the victories might be the result of the anti-incumbency spirit sweeping the nation. If this is an explanation, even partial, for today's results, it is not an unambiguous good one. Interestingly, though, women may at this moment have an advantage in politics. I can think of one final interpretation.