{"id":1098821,"date":"2019-01-12T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xy-yishc.shop\/?p=1098821"},"modified":"2019-01-12T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:47:19","slug":"how-rutgers-is-getting-women-ready-to-run-btn-livebig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xy-yishc.shop\/2019\/01\/12\/how-rutgers-is-getting-women-ready-to-run-btn-livebig\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rutgers is getting women 'Ready to Run': BTN LiveBIG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sometimes Jean Sinzdak is asked this question: What difference does it make to have women in elected office?<\/p>\n
Sinzdak, the associate director of Rutgers University?s Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)<\/a>, doesn?t have to scramble for an answer. She points to how ubiquitous it is today for women to obtain mortgages, take out loans and open credit cards in their own name. There was a time in our very recent history, though, that this wasn?t the case. But a piece of legislation called the Equal Credit Opportunity Act leveled the playing field. And that important bill was written and introduced by the iconic New York congresswoman Bella Abzug.<\/p>\n ?When you have people like her sitting at policy-making tables,? notes Sinzdak, ?decisions are made with their perspectives in mind and their life experience comes to bear on the policies that shape all of our lives.?<\/p>\n The CAWP was founded in the 1971 with the mission of spotlighting and tracking data related to women running for and serving in elected office in the US. Founding director Ruth Mandel, who now serves as the director of Rutgers? Eagleton Institute of Politics<\/a>, was told at the time that such a center was moot as there was practically no subject matter to study.<\/p>\n ?In the earl 1970s, less than five percent of all state legislators around the country were female,? Sinzdak explains. ?Now it?s up to 25 percent. It?s been a slow, but steady increase.?<\/p>\n