An Interesting Statistic
Here are a couple of interesting statistics in the Sunday Star Tribune newspaper this past week which I think say a lot about sexism in the United States:

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After this year's elections, number of women who will be members of the U.S. Senate, a record.

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Number of additional women who would have to be elected to the Senate to equal the proportion of women who are in the upper house of parliament in Indonesia, the most-populous Muslim-majority country in the world.

How's that for a commentary, especially when we think of Islam as being anti-women in any position of power. But that's not all there is:

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After new members of Congress are sworn in, where the U.S. House of Representatives will rank among the world's lower houses of parliament in terms of percent of members who are women, just below El Salvador and Panama and just above Turkmenistan and Zimbabwe, according to a compilation by the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

In the end we are still a male-dominated society at that level. Nancy Pelosi, Condi Rice, or Hillary Clinton to the contrary, we still don't understand how much we are gender prejudiced. Only time will tell how long it will take.