On Wednesday, there will be a discussion at the Amherst Town Library on women running for public office. It looks like it will be well worth attending, and not just by women. Men could learn a thing or two from hearing women talk about the need for more of them in the public sector.

The session is being sponsored by the Southern New Hampshire Branch of the American Association of University Women and the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation, which began a program called “Women Run!” that will be the focal point of the talk.

The panel will be made up of local women who hold public office, so the perspective will be from the inside and probably include details of difficulties faced and overcome, and why more women should hold elective office.

New Hampshire hasn’t been too bad in that regard, what with our four members of Congress, two of whom were governors of the state, and the fact that a previous U.S. senator was once the state’s attorney general.

But there is certainly room for improvement here as there is across the nation.

The event is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.