Over its 150-year history, Nevada has only elected three women to Congress, and has never elected a woman to the U.S. Senate. Although Nevada gets a lot of bad raps, it's one of the top 10 in the nation for the number of women it sends to political office.
In a category that would likely be reserved for the known progressive states in the nation, Nevada ranked 10th in statistics compiled by the group, Who Leads Us. Erin Loos Cutraro, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based She Should Run, said the results surprised her.
At the same time, she added, women's representation in public office is far below their numbers nationwide. When women run for office, they win as much as men, Cutraro said. The fact is, however, they don't run as much as men.
Many of them, she said, can't see themselves in politics.
"They can’t see themselves in those roles because they look at it as a man’s world,” she said.
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Erin Loos Cutraro, executive director, She Should Run
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