Report: Black Women UnderRepresented in Public Office | Afro: "Despite the high-profile of Black women office holders like D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) and U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Black women hold few elected positions, particularly in statewide offices, according to a December report.
It was commissioned by Higher Heights, a non-partisan organization dedicated to getting Black women elected to public office. The report, authored by Kelly Ditmar and produced in conjunction with the Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics, said that Black women make up 7.4 percent of the nation’s population but only 3.4 percent of the U.S. Congress, 3.5 percent of state legislators, 1.9 percent of mayors in cities with more than 30,000 people and less than one percent of statewide elected officials."
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