 A Black mother of four waging her first campaign won out against Buffalo, N.Y.'s four-term mayor in the city's Democratic primary election this week. Two of the three candidates that are leading the New York City Democratic mayoral primary are women. And women are also leading or have won more than half of the city's 51 City Council elections. Come election day, if these women prevail — and many of them will in overwhelmingly Democratic cities — they will join a growing group of women running U.S. cities. Thirty-two of the 100 largest U.S. cities, including Chicago, Phoenix and Atlanta, had female mayors, according to data as of March collected by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Seven were Black women, three Latina and three Asian Pacific Islander. Nearly 27% of the U.S. Congress is female, up from 4% in 1971, and women hold 30.6% of statewide elected offices, compared to 7% in 1987, CAWP data show. "I became a mother at 14. The majority of my campaign's leadership team is working mothers. People like us often get told we don't belong in politics," Buffalo's India B. Walton, a self-professed socialist, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday thanking her supporters. The declaration echoed that of Kamala Harris' acceptance speech where she said that she may be the first female vice president, but she wouldn't be the last. Having women in charge is more than just a symbolic move toward a more equal representation in government. When Congresswomen -- both Republicans and Democrats -- are involved in policymaking, they tend to sponsor more bills than their male colleagues on education, health care, violence against women, and abortion (both for and against). Female leaders on the local levels have brought their own experiences to policy debates about issues like child care and maternal health. For example, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, the city's first Black, female mayor, fought to reopen schools and bring universal broadband to students amid the pandemic. New York state -- home to one of the most diverse and progressive populations -- has lagged particularly far behind on female representation. The state ranked 31 out of 50 in municipal representation of women, with 71.4% of city offices held by men, according to recent data from the Rutgers center. Christine Quinn, a former City Council speaker who ran unsuccessfully for New York City mayor in 2013, said that's because women were "held to a different standard," she told Bloomberg Television on Tuesday. "We've had 109 mayors in New York City -- they've all been men -- 108 have been White men. This is the year to change that." One Manhattan voter on Tuesday, David Chin, said he didn't vote for Kathryn Garcia because he thinks Andrew Yang will be a "good executive," while Garcia will be a "good manager." Civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley and former city Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia face an uphill but not insurmountable battle to lead the U.S.'s most populous city due to the ranked-choice voting system. Ex-cop Eric Adams garnered the highest number of first-place votes in unofficial Election Night results, but Wiley and Garcia could still catch up by snagging votes in subsequent rounds after all the ballots are counted in the coming weeks. The winner may not be known until mid-July, but voters said they were watching closely. "It's as simple as that we're ready for a woman to show leadership," said Brooklyn voter Andrea Knox. —Shelly Banjo | 
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