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Last Updated on Monday, 23 March 2009 11:11 Written by rslcpol Monday, 23 March 2009 11:11
From YumaSun.com:
While the total is down from 31 last year, the state still has one of the nation’s highest percentages of female representation.
That diversity benefits Arizona, said Rep. Kirk Adams, R-Mesa, the House speaker.
“I think women add a wonderful, egalitarian dimension to the Legislature,” Adams said. “Women bring a natural perspective that might not be there otherwise.”
At 31.1 percent, Arizona ranks 10th in the nation in its share of women legislators, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. The national average is 24.2 percent.