The mid-term elections was a huge success for many women politicians. Iowa for the first time in history will have a woman in Congress and Mia Love is now the first African American Republican woman to win a congressional seat. Next year will the first time, women will occupy more than 100 seats in Congress.
This has become a huge step forward for women pursuing careers in politics as women are starting to succeed in political elections. For years media has been the blame for women politicians not being able to win elections, as the media has a bad habit of bashing women candidates. According to an article in the Washington Post from, many believe the media isn't holding back female candidates at all. The article states, "virtually there's no differences in the content of coverage for men and women. In those races, women were just as likely to receive coverage as men. We found that male and female candidates were associated with the same issues and traits. And not only were mentions of the candidates’ gender – references to physical appearance, clothes, family roles and so forth – quite rare, they occurred with the same frequency for men and women."
After writing this blog for the past three months I don't personally agree that the media coverage on men and women are the same, but I do believe that over time that media will finally start to treat everyone equally. This is just the beginning as more women will hopefully start running for office.
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