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US election: Women are the new majority

When Barack Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter fair pay act, which supported equal pay for women, his detractors called it pandering. When Republican candidates were caught making clumsy statements about rape and abortion, their supporters called the ensuing uproar a"distraction" from the real issues. But in this election, it became abundantly clear that women's issues are not fringe issues, and women are not a special interest group. Instead it was women who cast the bulk of the votes this election - 53%, and women who proved the deciding factor, breaking in Barack Obama's favour by 11 percentage points. At the same time, a historic number of female representative were elected, including the first openly gay senator (Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin), the first Asian-American female senator (Mazie Hirono, Hawaii) and the first female military veteran wounded in combat (Representative Tammy Duckworth, Illinois).

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When Barack Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter fair pay act, which supported equal pay for women, his detractors called it pandering. When Republican candidates were caught making clumsy statements about rape and abortion, their supporters called the ensuing uproar a"distraction" from the real issues. But in this election, it became abundantly clear that women's issues are not fringe issues, and women are not a special interest group. Instead it was women who cast the bulk of the votes this election - 53%, and women who proved the deciding factor, breaking in Barack Obama's favour by 11 percentage points. At the same time, a historic number of female representative were elected, including the first openly gay senator (Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin), the first Asian-American female senator (Mazie Hirono, Hawaii) and the first female military veteran wounded in combat (Representative Tammy Duckworth, Illinois).

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