Why are only 16% of U.S. Senators women, when women comprise more than 55% of the U.S. population?

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that mostest of the womams arnt as smart as us men.

It wasn't all that long ago that there was only 1. Now three states have two women each with another 10 having one. To my knowledge only two women running this time are in any kind of trouble and one of those will likely face a female opponent. One of our best shots at a seat is a woman. I could easily see us gaining another couple women this time.

The men are the ones running and they usually don't have women opponents.

The "farm team" (if you'll excuse a sports analogy) is short of women. We need to encourage women to run for city councils, school boards, state legislatures. From there they can aspire to and run for higher offices. There are many organizations that seek out and train women to run. I encourage as many women as I can to get involved.

for a reason

Then the problem of pay equity might tend to convert the U.S. Senate into a pink collar ghetto.

who had not been previously appointed. Gosh I am old, but not as old as she was.

when there are so many shoes to buy.

If you removed all of the lawyers from Congress, how many senators/reps would be left? 3?
I'm sure it's not that bad, but certainly laywers are serve in Congress far, far beyond their proportion of the population ( < 1% )

The _Ecotopia_ guy (Callenbach?) wrote another little thought-experiment called "A Citizen Legislature".
In this book he proposed electing representatives and senators by lottery.
I don't think he was serious about it really, it was just a rhetorical device to demonstrate just how NON-representative of the American people Congress is.
In such a system, assuming a good random process, you'd get proportional representation by gender and ethnicity, but ALSO by economics criteria too. That is, out of 535 congress-critters, you would have 3-4 lawyers ( instead of the 400+ we have now ), a couple of doctors, a couple of business executives, a somewhat larger cohort of teachers ... but the overwhelming majority of reps and senators would be blue-collar and retail workers.

J.