Women's e-news reports that the new Constitution in Iraq will guarantee that women hold at least 25% of the seats in the interim government. That's almost double women's representation in the United States, which stands at 14%. And the Iraq quota is just a minimum standard.
It would be interesting to study all the new Constitutions and government institutions that have been created in the last twenty years or so. I think too of South Africa's Courts of Reconciliation, surely one of the most creative and powerful institutions in world history. Think of what this model could mean in America. Are children learning about these in U.S. schools?
I was a girl in high school when Sputnik created a crisis in U.S. education. America realized we were falling way behind in math and science. Now America is falling way behind in democratic institutions. Do we have the will to catch up?
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