While a record more than 30 percent of Georgia’s General Assembly are women this session, there’s a wide discrepancy in gender representation between the parties and many theories for why that is.
That discrepancy under laid a recent moment on the state Senate floor after state Sen. Renee Unterman was bumped as chair of the powerful Health and Human Services Committee. Last week she took to the Senate floor to express her frustration.
But she also took the moment to criticize the under-representation of women on influential committees that handle the most important bills.
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