A Quick Look at the State of Women in Texas Under Bu$h

[Triana]

CRIME
Texas ranked 10th in the rate of women murdered by men in 1996.

Forty-two Texas concealed handgun licensees were arrested for family violence from 1996-1997.

Almost 825,000 Texas women were physically abused in 1998.

Texas ranked second in the percent of calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline in 1997.

Almost 8,000 rapes were reported in Texas in 1998.

More than 3.5 million Texans do not have access to sexual assault education and prevention programs.

One third of Texas women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes.

ECONOMY AND JOBS
Texas had the highest number of women--669,000-- who would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage. These women represent 17 percent of working women in Texas; the national average of working women earning the minimum wage is 12.6 percent.

Texas ranked 42nd in the nation for women who were economically independent.

Texas ranked 43rd in the nation for women living in poverty.

HEALTH
Texas ranked 50th in the nation for women without health insurance.

Almost two million women in Texas did not have health insurance in 1999.

Texas tied for 48 in the nation for teen pregnancy rates with a rate of 49 per 1,000 women in 1996.

More than two million Texas women were in need of contraceptive services and supplies in 1998.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Texas ranked 35 in the nation for overall political participation of women in 1998.

[bluestateguy]

1. Well, unfortunately a lot of women have supported him in Texas.

He won with 68% in 1998, so I suspect a lot of those voters were women.

In 2004, he won with 63% of the Texas women's vote.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/TX/P/00/epolls.0.html

I left Texas for a reason.

[MadMaddie]

2. I left TX for the same reason.....

My family left Texas too....the crime rate was through the roof....their solution....no birth control, no sex education....result...high pregancy rates.....teenage girls with 2 or more kids....gang activity through the roof....and shutting abortion clinics....

It all ties together....keep the poor...poor and barely scraping by....keep the middle class dwindling....build more prisons...execute more people....it's the Republican way.

[Triana]

3. Ugh. Happens Every Republican...and GWB was the absolute W-orst

You'da thunk the idjits who voted for the cretin would have noticed his sorry-arse record in TX. ESPECIALLY the women.

I'll never understand why any woman, dark-skinned person, or gay person would EVER want to be or vote for a damned Repube.

[MadMaddie]

4. Agreed..

[mystwoman]

5. brood mares

Well if at the Presidential level Dubya is the best texas has to offer, the trickle down at the common people level was going to be horrendous anyway. To my mind the only women who were successful ever from Texas had to leave Texas to get success.

[Iris]

6. But all that matters is that Bush is "born again" and "folksy".

Plus, he's the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with.


right?

[Triana]

7. I'd like to pour one on him ...

...then - oh never mind.

;)