Women in Public Office on Healing Wisdom

This morning LIVE at 9am we discussed the impact of women in public office on legislation and how that effects women's issues and our culture in Massachusetts where the representation of women in public office is relatively small compared with international countries. We also discussed the history of International Women's Day and the Cape Women's Coalition. My guests were Laura Roskos, Ph.D., former President of WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the US Section). She was a postdoctoral fellow for the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, a lecturer on Global Gender Issues at the University of Connecticut, and taught Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She currently resides on the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission with guest Elenita Elenita Muñiz as its coordinator. Beverly Johnson, Cape Women's Coaltion founder. Hear the podcast here.

Women of various faiths, political persuasions, ethnicities, countries and backgrounds can come together to create resolutions and draft treaties that serve the better good, with relative ease. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has been able to do things governments cannot during times of tension and even war. It's been proven that the more women there are holding positions in public office, the more women's issues are addressed, and the more legislature is passed to address these issues. Issues of inequality effect our whole society. Across the board, women are statistically less inclined to turn to violence, and create alternatives to war and punishing systems. It's statistically proven that when you increase the ratio of women in public office, conditions for women are improved over all. Domestic violence, sexual abuse, et cetera are decreased. The general misogynistic attitudes that have been reigning these past 4,000 are measurably decreased!!