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Number of US cities with all male city councils: hundreds? thousands?
Number of US cities with mixed city councils: hundreds? thousands?
Number of US cities with all female city councils: one
citation needed
A diverse mix would have a lot of mixed city councils and an equal number of all male and all female city councils. Yet, I'm confident, based on my understanding of US cities and towns, that there are far more all male city councils than all female city councils.
If you've got actual stats to show that there are more or similar amounts of all female city councils than all male city councils, then I would agree that this isn't diversity. But if, as my common sense suggests, there are way more all male councils than all female ones, then an all female city council is a win for diversity as it brings those two numbers closer to equality.
How about getting over the sex of the politicians and just voting based on their programs? Too strange?
If you people did that, statistically they would be balanced as the comment above said. Yet they aren't. Think about it.
Of course people are not doing that, I didn't say they do. I just hope one day we'll go beyond the 'we need 5 men and 5 women because equality' silliness. The gender should be irrelevant but sadly we're still at the 'OMG! First women PM! Such progress!' stage. Poland had a token female PM and banned abortion couple years later. Spain never had a female PM and recently instituted menstruation leave. Policy is what should matter.