Women Are Taking Over City Councils—From New York to New Mexico: Weekend Reading on Women's Representation

Women hold 31 of the 51 seats on the New York City Council; meet 21 women involved with voting rights; Women make up nearly half of the Cabinet in the Netherlands; and more. Catch up on your weekend reading on women's representation:

A record number of women are due to make up the next Dutch government after the incoming coalition published its list of ministers and secretaries of state on Sunday.

The four-party coalition will be sworn in on January 10 after reaching a deal in December – a record 271 days after elections in March – handing Prime Minister Mark Rutte a fourth term in office. In this advanced text is a 20-page chapter on World War II. As I read about President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Pan-American conferences and the war’s impact on society, I came across a paragraph creatively titled “Women.” Merely a hundred words later, “women” were abandoned.

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