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In reply to the discussion: Obama: ‘Congress Would Get More Done If There Were More Women’ [View all]redqueen
(115,096 posts)66. LOL
Yes, why wait for any actual boohooing right?
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60% of personal wealth, 51% of stocks. I seriously doubt that. Oprah may scew the statistics
robinlynne
Apr 2012
#80
the article talks cleafrly about cars. The so called statistics. Most stocks are not owned by women
robinlynne
Apr 2012
#113
Here is the "stat" quoted on new cars: 68% of new car purchase the US are made by women
robinlynne
Apr 2012
#114
10 women working @ minimum wage make more than 1 unemployed man who used to make $200,000/yr?
uppityperson
Apr 2012
#77
No, I don't. Do you want to look again and think again? If a woman makes 10% of what a man makes,
uppityperson
Apr 2012
#103
Women do not out earn men. Purchaisng at the mall is not wealth. buying real estate, stocks, and cor
robinlynne
Apr 2012
#81
I think this conference had a clear agenda, and uses wrong/misleading statistics to prove a point.
robinlynne
Apr 2012
#89
The assumption that more women would translate to greater productivity strikes me as sexist.
badtoworse
Apr 2012
#5
It would only be different if those new women Congresspeople were mostly from one party
RZM
Apr 2012
#91
It would have to appreciably different, simply because Congress would represent the population more.
joshcryer
Apr 2012
#109
Congress would get more done if get money out of it, and quit electing religious fundamentalists.
Initech
Apr 2012
#29
This is a valid argument for the same reason that "there should be more male teachers" is.
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2012
#65
Laugh all you want, but there are plenty of people fed up with the whole lot of them.
Beacool
Apr 2012
#101