A great post written by Marie Wilson on the Huffington Post on why adding women to the political mix could be just the 'change' solution we all so desperately want.

One of the outtakes:

The bipartisan Congressional Women's Caucus was instrumental to passing critical legislation including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the Child Support Enforcement Act. As Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson has said, "It wasn't that men were against these changes. They just hadn't considered the issue before because they hadn't experienced the problem in their own lives. As women have become a part of the system, that's changing

Read the whole article.

Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen