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Awesome teacher schools kids on gender disparity in government

A simple thought experiment showed high school students the problem with a disproportionately male U.S. Congress.
By Katie Underwood
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When a country's Congress is 80 per cent male and 80 per cent white, what does that mean for women and minority groups? Using a clever thought experiment, Nicholas Ferroni, a New Jersey history teacher and skilled t-shirt wearer, attempted to demonstrate for his students why the skewed gender composition of American government is such a problem — specifically, that when your reps don't look like you, your rights come second. As one disenfranchised male pupil complained, "Eighty percent of the class is all girls! It's majority rules!"

Sucks, right?

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