St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.
St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.
I’ll be interested to see what they do. That place definitely needs a little help.
My guess is that they will what any other city council would do. I don’t think being all-female will suddenly change their politics. While it’s an interesting fact I would say that expecting all-female council to govern differently than other councils is a little bit sexist.
I don’t think it’s sexist to think that people from a different background and life experience may have a different take on policies. At least, I hope they do! It could be a nice change for the city.
Sure, women can have different life experience regarding crime or healthcare but city council can focus on those issues when it’s majority female or simply has female mayor, right? The sexist part is focusing on ‘all-female’ part and thinking that they will somehow behave differently now that there’s no men around.
You’re the one that chose to interpret what I said as sexist, that’s on you.
Are you familiar with the phrase, “strike while the iron is hot”? But have you ever read of any other news articles from AP regarding the election of city-council from any neighboring city to St. Paul? This would be the best time to capitalize on the extra attention. And given the quotes in the article, any Republican looking for election is going to be looking for any reason to use against them.
“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick” -Kevin Malone
Why is that?
They have added attention and something to prove. Now it’s the best time to do whatever it is they plan to do.