A record 12 women will take their seats as their state's highest-ranking elected officials when the nation's governors are sworn in this winter.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A record 12 women will take their seats as their state's highest-ranking elected officials when the nation's governors are sworn in this winter.
“This is not an incremental growth. We're still far from political parity for women serving as chief executives. But it does feel like a breakthrough," said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “It's significant particularly because these chief executive positions have been very hard to crack. These women in many ways disrupt fundamentally who a chief executive can be.
The dozen are decidedly Democratic in their makeup, with eight belonging to the party compared to four Republicans. That's in keeping with more women serving in elected office who identify as Democrats than Republicans in the U.S. House, Senate and in state legislatures.
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