LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Women will remain a minority in the Nebraska Legislature no matter how many votes they receive in the upcoming election.
Of the 63 candidates who filed by Tuesday's deadline to run for the 25 seats opening in the Unicameral this year, only 15 are women, including four senators running for re-election.
Currently there are 11 women serving in the 49-member Unicameral, and if women were elected to all possible seats they could fill this fall, there would still only be a net gain of five seats.
The state's women senators say they feel strong support from both voters and their male colleagues, but societal pressures and self-doubt keep women from considering running at all.
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