For the second year in a row, Republicans, anxious to kill off the “war on women” narrative, appointed a woman to give the official response to the State of the Union address. But while Sen. Joni Ernst got to make a speech on TV, don’t look for her to be heading up any Senate committees this year. As the New York Times reports, the Republican takeover of the Senate means that far fewer women will be in powerful committee chair positions.
Under Democrats, women held nine committee chairs and under Republicans, they will only have two. The fact that women are losing so many leadership positions is even more remarkable in light of the fact that there are more women in Congress than ever. Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times explains:
The reason is largely because Congress is a culture where power is tied tightly with seniority, and committee chairmanships do not go to junior members. More than two-thirds of female lawmakers are Democrats, and Democratic women, who overall were elected earlier and in larger numbers than their Republican counterparts, have more longevity. When Democrats lost control, women lost top jobs.
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