Did you notice that when we went to the polls this month, voters in New Jersey and Virginia elected female candidates for governor?

Big news! Come January, America will have women running 14 states, and they. …

Hey, wait a minute. We’re going to celebrate the fact that this country has reached the historic moment when 28% of its governors are female?

That’s actually kind of depressing.

I started my journalistic career in Connecticut covering Ella Grasso, who in 1974 became the first woman not succeeding her husband ever elected governor in the United States. She was nationally known for her motherly demeanor in public, and I always cherished the story about a minor bill she opposed that contrasted with that image. The bill, to allow bow-and-arrow hunting on Sundays, somehow passed, and

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