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7A NEWS/«iie ClwtUittt $o«t Thursday, December 4, 2003 Women outnace men in elected office Continued from page 1A Delores Tucker, founder and chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc., a Silver Spring, Md.- based group that encourages women to engage in political activism. “We are the caretakers of the family, even the men. We raise presidents and we raise governors,” says Tucker, who served seven years as Pennsylvania’s first black female secretary of' state. ‘We work at it. Women work at things and the men, unfortunately, they have been so deprived by the cul ture and by the system here that they have not been able to move as fast as women.” According to David Bositis, the Joint Center researcher who authored the study, most of the recent progress for Black women has taken place at the county levels, where black women are being elected to city councils and school boards. At that level, there was an increase of 22 positions, a 2.3 percent rise between 2000 and 2001. “It’s more a question of why black women are doing well as opposed to why the number of black men are declining,” Bositis says. He speculates that women not only tend to vote in greater numbers, but in the Democratic Party — which receives an overwhelming majority of the black vote - women are more politically active than men. As for the men, Bositis says, several social variables have apparently caused the rate of black male elections to slow. “Black women are attend ing college at higher rates than black men,” Bositis says. “And, you’ve got crimi nal justice issues.” At the end of 2000, more black men were behind bars (791,600) than were enrolled in colleges or universities (603,032) , according to the Justice* Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates alternatives to prison. There are demographic reasons for the gap as well. Tucker cites U. S. Census reports that show that women are more likely to vote than men. Further, the voting-age population of women exceeded men by nearly 9 million in 2000. ‘We have the vote. We do vote, we have the greater number and we can win every seat if we realize what Abigail Adams told her hus band John, if you don’t remember thejadies while you’re drafting that Constitution of the United States, we have the power to free oiorselves.” Tucker was paraphrasing a note that Abigail Adams wrote to her husband. President John Adams, bn May 7,1776 that stated: ‘’I cannot say that I think you are very generous to the ladies; for, whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to sub due our masters, and with out violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.” Overall, black elected offi cials have grown from 1,469 in 1970 to 9,101, a 519.5 per cent increase. Of the 513,236 local, state and national officials, African Americans represent 1.8 of those officials and 12 percent of the U.S. popula tion. Other highlights of the report: • The 10 states with the largest number of black elected officials in 2001 were Mississippi (892), Alabama (756), Louisiana (705), Illinois (624), Georgia (611), South Carolina (534), Arkansas (502, North Carolina (491), Ifexas (460) and Michigan (346); • In 2001, the South had the largest number of black elected officials, with 6,179. 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