The Statue of Liberty, New York by Carol M. Highsmith (Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
NUMBER TWO: In the June 23rd edition, a guest columnist for Your Turn, Rick Adams, reported these amazing statistics:
“More women are serving in elected office than at any time in American History: 151 women are in the US Congress, 94 women are statewide elected officials, twelve are governors [including here in New Mexico] and these numbers may and likely will increase.”
This is our future, the work of decades of hard work by many women in all layers of this society. More women than men now graduate with college and advanced degrees: we’ve worked long and hard to make this happen, helping our daughters and granddaughters to understand the importance of education.
And, in the arts, as I’ve observed, we have broken the barrier: more women are writing and directing plays on stages all over the country, large and small; more women are publishing books in all categories; more women are seeing their art displayed in more museums, and as some of you have surely noticed, more women are the voices of our National Public Radio on all subjects. Yes, this is subjective, I have no numbers to back up my conclusions—but I think some of my readers will have noticed the same thing.
It’s important not to be ploughed under by the chaos and intemperance in Washington. We don’t live in that swamp, and we don’t need to allow our hopes and dreams to be drowned out by the noise.
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