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Up Against The Ceiling: The Push For More Women In California Politics

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 | Sacramento, CA
Melody Stone / Capital Public Radio
 

Melody Stone / Capital Public Radio


Click on the map below to see the percentage of women that make up city councils in that county. Source: The Leadership California Institude / Grassroots Lab, LLC 

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Up Against The Ceiling Series

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    On the surface, women look like they’re doing well in the California Legislature. But we'll take a closer look in the third part of our series, Up Against the Ceiling: The Push for More Women in California Politics

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    Up Against the Ceiling: Getting Women Ready For Battle

    October 22, 2014

    For various reasons a lot of women have trouble seeing themselves in political office. We'll look at the effort to recruit and elect more women in the second part of our series,Up Against the Ceiling: The Push for More Women in California Politics.

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    Up Against the Ceiling: Meet The Women Serving in Office

    October 21, 2014

    Women hold less than a third of state, county and city elected offices in California. We'll meet some of them in the first part of our series, Up Against the Ceiling: The Push for More Women in California Politics.


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