Women make huge gains in Oklahoma, rise to leadership posts
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January 27, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has traditionally ranked among the states with the fewest women in elected office, but the state made huge gains in the Legislature in November and several of top leadership posts are now held by female lawmakers.
Although the Sooner State lost its first female governor, Mary Fallin, to term limits, it increased the percentage of women in the state Legislature from 13.4 percent in 2017 to 21.5 percent in 2019, one of the sharpest increases in the country.
Democrats, particularly women , appeared to be energized nationally this cycle by the #MeToo movement and thei...
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