Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee obviously had a great primary election night, with 47.18 percent to Republican Rob McKenna's 42.8 percent (as of late this afternoon).

Congrats, Jay---but The C Is for Crank has a question for you: Given that your jobs plan focuses almost exclusively on "green" industrial and manufacturing jobs, which are held primarily by men---and given that women have largely failed to reap the benefits of the "hecovery" (because women predominate in fields that haven't bounced back from the recession, like teaching and health care), how does your bulldozer jobs plan ensure that women, not just men, benefit from the recovery?

Here's Inslee's (edited for length, but otherwise verbatim) response:

"It starts with, and this is something that I have been committed to for some time, my Scoop on Cool Careers program [which gives girls an opportunity to meet local career women and eat ice cream] for years at the Microsoft campus, where we try to give young women a relationship with someone who can be a role model in the technical field.[pullquote]How does your bulldozer jobs plan ensure that women, not just men, benefit from the recovery?[/pullquote]

"We lose a lot of very bright young women who drop out of the math track in 9th, 10th, 11th grade. We need to keep that brilliance engaged in STEP programs---science, technology, engineering, and math.

"One of the things we can do is try to give young women a role model. so that they can see themselves doing this kind of technological work.

"The second is that we need to encourage women to enter these programs. Federal Way has a program to get young women into these technical STEM programs.

"Third, we need to improve educational system to encourage young women to study math and science.

"We’ve got problems not just in the male-dominated fields--we have problems getting people in more traditionally female-oriented fields like nursing, and we need to help women in both."

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