11/23/2024
Building community with Women in Policy: Kanchan Ojha, president of OSU’s Women in Policy student group, discusses how the club supports the professional endeavors of its members and strengthens the knowledge of anyone interested in learning more about public policy.
Despite consisting of roughly half the population in the U.S., women are drastically underrepresented in public policy positions. In the United States Senate, as of 2023, only 25 percent of seats are filled by women with only 3 percent filled by women of color. In the House of Representatives, 28.5 percent of voting members are women, equating to 124 seats, plus four women serving in non-voting seats. As for state governments, women make up 32.7 percent of state legislatures and 24 percent of governors.
These statistics, however, belong to an upward trend over the past several decades. Women’s representation in politics continues to grow as organizations and individuals dedicated to this cause push for women’s voices in positions of power.
At OSU, one of those groups is Women in Policy at Oregon State University
Read the story at: https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/spp/building-community-women-policy
