Blue states with glass ceilings

[The Arizonan]

I remember how Pennsylvania had two congresswomen not too long ago. Kathy Dahlkemper lost reelection and Allyson Schwartz ran for governor and lost the primary last year. I actually thought that she had a chance of making it into the governor's mansion.

Mississippi is the greatest offender when it comes to having a glass ceiling. They've never even elected a congresswoman.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Mississippi is the greatest offender when it comes to having a glass ceiling. They've never even elected a congresswoman.

Idaho too, I believe.

[Vosem]

Mississippi is the greatest offender when it comes to having a glass ceiling. They've never even elected a congresswoman.

Idaho too, I believe.

No -- Idaho had Helen Chenoweth. Mississippi is the only state totally at rock bottom (though, until the 2014 election of Joni Ernst, I believe Iowa was too).

[nclib]

The irony is that of the last three states to have not been represented by a woman in Congress (VT, DE, and MS), two of them are blue. Of course, VT and DE are penalized by having fewer reps in Congress, and have each elected at least one female Governor.

[ag]

For any given state this is called the Law of Small Numbers )

Women only really entered politics on their own a few decades back. Since then there have just been not enough governors or senators in almost any given state.

[Mr. Smith]

Hasn't stop New Hampshire from having women on both sides of the aisle in both positions.

Hasn't stopped Arizona from electing 3 governors

Pretty embarrassing when the state of Goldwater can do better than the state of Harvey Milk.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Mississippi is the greatest offender when it comes to having a glass ceiling. They've never even elected a congresswoman.

Idaho too, I believe.

No -- Idaho had Helen Chenoweth. Mississippi is the only state totally at rock bottom (though, until the 2014 election of Joni Ernst, I believe Iowa was too).

Oh yes, how could I forget!! She received forgiveness from God for her affair, but Bill Clinton didn't.

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http://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislators/womens-legislative-network/women-in-state-legislatures-for-2014.aspx

In an example with some more data points (legislatures) it seems to very roughly show that the NE, Upper Midwest and Pacific Coast elects more women than the South, Appalachia and the Plains.

Also google image search "women state legislatures" for some maps (a lot of them are from the pbrower school of map making so apologies)

[Boston Bread]

If every male state legislator in the country got kicked out, this is what the state legislature control map would look like:

red = Democrats control both houses
blue = Republicans control both houses
grey = split or at least one house is tied
green = Nebraska

[Mister Mets]

My first instinct is that it's mostly random, and also that there are more Senators than Governors.

But that's not entirely accurate, since Governors aren't term-limited.

California hasn't elected any new Senators since 1992, whereas the state elected a few Governors in that time. New York has had three Governors in the last five years.

A non-trivial aversion to women in executive positions may be an issue here.