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Mitt has "Binders Full of Women." Let's get women out of Binders and into Positions of Leadership in the Real World!
By Moms-Pod (Contact)
To be delivered to: Mitt Romney, Candidate for President of the United States of America, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama
Petition Statement
Why did Mitt Romney have to refer to binders to hire women? Why aren't women given the same opportunities as men and paid the same as men?
Petition Background
Women represent more than 50% of the population of the USA, but women only hold 27.6% or less of elected positions and/or Mitt appointed positions!
Women make up only 16.8% of Congress.
(90 women have been elected to Congress out of a total of 535 seats) - (61D, 29R - 16.8% of 535 seats)
U.S. Senate 17 (12D, 5R - 17% of 100 seats)
U.S. House 73 (49D, 24R - 16.8% of 435 seats)
42 percent of Romney’s appointments during his first two and a half years as governor were women, the number of women in high-level appointed positions actually declined to 27.6 percent during his full tenure as governor according to to a 2007 MassGAP study.
In state Statewide Executive positions, including Governors and Lt. Governors, women hold 75, 23.4% of 320 positions.
Sign the petition to get women out of Binders and in to Positions of Leadership in the Real World!
To learn more about this issue visit: (http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Current_Numbers.php)
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