Maryland is typically considered a progressive state, but when it comes to women in elected office, the record is mixed.
Women hold about 40 percent of the seats in the General Assembly, but that propotion ranks only 15th nationally.
House Speaker Jocelyn Peña-Melnyk, who succeed a woman in the post, has named women to six of eight committee chairs. Women are poised to lead four of the seven biggest central Maryland counties, and Angela Alsobrooks has gone from Prince George’s County executive to the U.S. Senate. All of that is worth noting.
But it wasn’t that long ago, after the
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