Boston Mayor's race - Where are the women?

[Mass]

Yesterday, Marti Walsh announced his run for mayor.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/10/state-representative-martin-walsh-formally-announces-bid-for-mayor-boston/lch8daiuJFwz9QyV7DN4yH/story.html

State Representative Martin J. Walsh formally announced Wednesday that he will be a candidate for mayor of Boston, vowing to run a campaign anchored around his record as a legislator, which includes touting accomplishments in economic development, education, and substance abuse treatment.

No problem with this. What bugged me, though, is that the article has the list of declared candidates and those who are talking about running.

Other candidates include City Councilors John R. ­Connolly, Rob Consalvo, and Felix G. Arroyo; Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley; and Bill Walczak, a founder of Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester.

Two other people, Will Dorcena and Charles Clemons, have also said they are running but have raised little money. Several other people have publicly said they are considering a campaign, including Councilor Michael P. Ross and John F. Barros, a school committee member and executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.

I only know of a few of them, but I cannot avoid thinking it is really a shame that, in such a long list of candidates, there is no women.

Same goes for the Senate race: 5 candidates and no women... I am a big fan of Markey, but still, why is it still so difficult in MA for women to run for important positions.

[Bombtrack]

1. There ARE no women < me being a grammar asshole

Which is very unnecessary on my part. Forgive me.

[MADem]

2. Charlotte Golar Richie...she may get traction, hard to know...

http://www.necn.com/08/21/13/Golar-Richie-speaks-out-against-violent-/landing_politics.html?blockID=850251

(NECN: Greg Wayland) - Charlotte Golar Richie, the sole woman among the even dozen candidates running for Boston mayor, seized a critical urban moment to talk about urban violence against women.

"As a woman and a mother of two daughters, I can't help but be alarmed as I know everyone should be at the number of high-profile and much publicized assaults and murders of women that have taken place across our city," she says.

Golar Richie was speaking during a news conference at quiet Copps Hill Terrace at the edge of Boston's North End. Only a few reporters and a handful of supporters were there for the 10 a.m. gathering, but she knows women in the North End and elsewhere have seen the headlines and read about all the recent violence, some of it deadly.

"So we need to do something about this issue, whether we're here in the North End or we're dealing with the serial rapist in Roxbury or the women who've been attacked on Beacon Hill," Golar Richie says.

There's film at the link.....