In today’s rundown: How DC residents respond to questions about sexual orientation. | What do women over 50 fear most? | Why fewer women run for office in Virginia. | Marital messiness keeps some couples from higher political office.
— The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance breaks down the numbers from the DC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2008 Annual Health Report and found that “females (81%) were more likely than males (78%) to be heterosexual and bisexual (2% versus 1% respectively); however, males (8%) were more like than females (2%) to be homosexual.”
— Women over 50’s worst fear is economic insecurity, writes Barbara Hannah Grufferman in Huffington Post.
— More men than women continue to seek more state legislative positions in Virginia, according to an op-ed in The Daily Progress (via TBD.com). Virginia has a lower rate of women in office than the rest of the country.
— And The Washington Post explores what’s expected of the wives of male presidential hopefuls.
