Today men are almost 80% more likely to hold a seat in The United States Senate, which
inevitably is used to represent the diversity of the United States as a whole. This uneven
representation is due to institutional sexism on many grounds. Studies show the percentages of
women and men who are qualified to be in senate are much closer to equal, with only a 2% gap
between genders. This shows the leadership positions are unproportionally related to the
qualified politicians who look to succeed a spot in the leadership position.
Easily verifiable mathematical formulas are able to show relationships between the
factors of sexism in congress. One of these relationships connects the qualifications of all the
people wanting the jobs to the people who hold the positions, which resulted in the clear
observation that men are more likely to be accepted to one of these jobs, yet have the same
amount of credentials. This backs up the assumption that sexism is the reason women are not as
equally present in Congress. In this calculation, statistics collected from harvard and yale were
used as the education components and studies from PETA were used as the governmental
acceptance rates. For these studies, the information yielded a 22% trend to the acceptance of the
male candidates. The standard deviation of these results were calculated in comparison to similar
credible studies using rational analysis. With a low deviation of .2%, the results are very
mathematically credible.
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