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Nell Armstrong writes:

On December 30, 2008, I counted all the state senators by gender by looking at their state senate roster on the internet.
When a first name was questionable, I clicked to see a photo before assigning gender. One state did not have photos linked to the names.
This is a work-in-progress, and if anybody can document necessary corrections please relay information to Nell Armstrong c/o 51percent51at gmail.com.

The entire list appears below, but here are the aggregate results

    * States with 25 - 47% women senators = 16
    * States with 15.1 - 24% = 18
    * States with 15% or less = 16

State senates with 35% or more women: NH=35.1, CA=35.9, DE=38.1, MN=40.1, WA=40.8, AZ=46.6.
States with less than 10%: CO=9.1%, WV=8.8, MS=7.5, SC=0.0 (being originally from MS, we always say Thank God for SC!)
OK had 10.4%  New York, the "liberal" state, had 16.6% women (10 out of 60).

Of course, this does not take into account the 2008 elections as only a couple of states included recently elected but not on board senators and none indicated outgoing senators. 

I will do this again after they update their sites for 2009.

Other interesting notations: Alaska has 3 female & 17 males but the President of the Senate is female.
South Dakota, in 2006, had only one female, a Native American, but in 2008 had 5 out of 35 which is not bad for that state.
Massachusetts has a female Senate President and the RI majority leader is a woman.
I wasn't attending to that statistic but I saw these in passing. I did not count Democratic vs Republican but think I will next time.
But there were plenty of Republican women on the list.

STATE SENATORS

Collected from state senate websites by Nell Armstrong

By Percentages:

Alphabetical: