By Christina Wilkie, Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — Even as Hillary Clinton solidifies her grasp on her party’s nomination for president, women remain dramatically underrepresented in American politics, holding only 20 percent of the seats in Congress and just six out of the 50 governorships.Despite gains in 2014, there are still 94 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan, with higher percentages of female officeholders than the U.S.To turn the tide, the U.S. can and should take cues from countries that have succeeded in increasing their percentage of female politicians, according to experts who spoke Tuesday at a panel convened by the Federal Election Commission. Public financing, proportional representation plans and better work-life balance for legislators could all help move the United States toward a more equitable distribution of power, the panelists said.”In Latin America, we tend to have a public financing system, in which the government or the state allocates part of the national budget specifically for the financing of campaigns,” said Betilde Munoz Pogossian, an elections expert with the Organization of American States. She said that a public financing system can also be used to reward political parties that include more women on their slates of candidates.

Source: There Are Lots Of Ways To Get More Women Elected To Office. Just Ask The Rest Of The World.