Karen Bass, the first woman elected mayor in L.A., will be ceremoniously sworn in to office on Sunday.
“She wants to take people off of the streets,” Fox said. “Activists are very firm on how she does that, and now they have allies on the council.”
“Though the average Angeleno may not care whether Karen Bass is a woman, I think they will see a difference in how she leads,” said Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, a political science and gender studies professor at the University of Southern California. “She was very transparent about managing people’s expectations. She didn’t make wild promises,” said Hancock Alfaro, adding that it’s not that women don’t take risks, but that they’re more likely to take calculated risks.
Caruso had issued a statement condemning the incident but did not convene a similar group, said Hancock Alfaro, who added that she wasn’t criticizing either candidate’s response but noting a difference in leadership style. Research, she said, shows women tend to demonstrate a more collaborative style.Before entering politics in 2005, Bass founded Community Coalition in 1990 in response to the crack-cocaine epidemic of that era. The South L.A.
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