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	Home :: Program Areas :: Gender and Democracy Gender and Democracy We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. ~ Jeannette Rankin A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state. ~ Agnes E. Benedict Did you ... suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction ... in religion, literature, colleges and schools: Democracy in all public and private life. ~ Walt Whitman Women are an American majority yet are still treated as an exploited minority. Women's wages, work, and representation remain inequitable. Read her for resources on gender and democracy. Publications/Talks Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S. "The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." Democracy News Frances Moore Lappe Speaking in Madison, WI (November 5, 2007)