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Friday, August 23, 2019
Women are mysteriously missing from D.C. think tanks’ foreign policy panels. Here’s the data.
The Washington Post
Although women make up half the world’s population and a growing proportion of scholars and analysts, they’re often absent in convenings of “experts.” That’s true across a number of industries, according to an event management company’s report on...
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Friday, August 23, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Vote for the woman because she’s a woman
Time
By Caitlin Moscatello, In February, Nevada became the first state in the country with a female-majority legislature. By June, with the help of the state’s Democratic governor, there were stronger laws ensuring equal pay for women, tougher penalties...
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
This election season, we’re examining the role gender plays in news coverage. Here’s why
Crosscut
By Kiana Scott & Tamara Power-Drutis, When Jenny Durkan was sworn in as Seattle’s mayor in 2017, the Seattle Weekly introduced her with the words, “Durkan, who wore a royal blue blazer and black slacks, flashed a toothy smile as she settled at...
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
How to close the massive gender gap in Congress
Vox
By Li Zhou, Women’s lives improve when government is more inclusive. So let’s do this already. \Rep. Cheri Bustos, the Illinois lawmaker who is charged with ensuring House Democrats hold on to their majority, had some brutally honest words for a 20-...
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Friday, August 16, 2019
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Women candidates are constantly asked about their electability. Here are 5 reasons that’s misguided.
Vox
An August poll highlights a trend that’s emerged in the 2020 presidential cycle thus far: Voters favor Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as one of their top choices for the Democratic nomination when the focus isn’t on “electability.” When it is, they...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Stop asking if women are electable
Ms Magazine
By Amanda Renteria, “Electability” has become perhaps the most discussed term in all of U.S. politics, and it’s a focal point of the 2020 presidential race. Pundits, pollsters and journalists continue debating who is electable and why. Yet even...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The podcast that's inspiring women to pursue positions in leadership
NBC News
Women have made great progress in the struggle for equality. But when it comes to filling leadership positions, women lag substantially behind men across industries, including in law, medicine, finance, academia and politics. In podcasting, there’s...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women have made huge strides in politics. But we have more to do
Delaware Online
By Suzanne Moore, Karen Peterson and Liane Sorenson, While it seems as if the 2018 election — and its historic gains for women — was only yesterday, the 2020 election is already the subject of considerable national attention. Before focusing on 2020...
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
How 4 congresswomen came to be called “the Squad”
The Vox
The term is making headlines, but Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib have their own definition. Sometime in the past few months, four members of Congress came to be referred to in mainstream media outlets as “the Squad.” The story of how...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why sexist coverage of women in politics matters
Ms Magazine
By Dustin Harp, “The first time I met Elizabeth Warren, she had just come home from a walk with her husband and her dog at Fresh Pond, the reservoir near her house in Cambridge, Mass. It was a sunny day in February, a couple of weeks after Warren ...
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Friday, July 12, 2019
New polling shows how much sexism is hurting the Democratic women running for president
The Washington Post
Over the last several years, debates between Republicans and Democrats have increasingly involved extremely divergent attitudes toward women. The Republican Party, for instance, often treats discussions of sexual harassment or discrimination as...
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Friday, July 12, 2019
Why men thought women weren’t made to vote
The Atlantic
William T. Sedgwick believed that no good could come of letting women vote. “It would mean a degeneration and a degradation of human fiber which would turn back the hands of time a thousand years,” Sedgwick said in 1914. “Hence it will probably...
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Friday, July 12, 2019
The real turning point for women’s political power
The Atlantic
In february 13, 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt stood triumphant before the opening session of the National Woman Suffrage Association convention and declared the organization’s decades-long mission finally accomplished. “Women be glad today. Let your...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Thinking of running in 2020? Lessons learned from women who ran for congress in 2018
Gender Policy Report
By Julie Dolan and Paru Shah, There’s a great deal of excitement leading up to the 2020 elections, in part because of the unprecedented numbers of women running for President. But candidates are also making history elsewhere, more quietly and...
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Friday, July 05, 2019
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It’s a question no one says they want to ask. But the women running for President keep hearing it.
The New York Times
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some people whisper it, some apologize for it, and some are very careful to mention their neighbors — their neighbors would be the ones to ask. “Do you really think a woman could be elected president?” In ways subtle and overt,...
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Friday, June 28, 2019
The 6 women running for president in the US have answers
The New York Times
“The opportunities for the next president are enormous. We can show worldwide leadership.” — Senator Elizabeth Warren, on whether it’s possible for the next president to help stop climate change. There are a lot of Democrats running for president of...
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Friday, June 28, 2019
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The inescapable challenge of talking while female
The Atlantic
By Adrienne Green, At first, it seemed like the Democrats’ first primary debate would be an exercise in politeness. As the candidates tried to introduce themselves and their agendas to potential voters, minutes went by without so much as a small...
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Friday, June 28, 2019
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Democrats, it’s time to believe in women again
The New York Times
By Michelle Goldberg, Last Friday, at Representative James Clyburn’s fish fry in Columbia, South Carolina, I met Sharon Hamill, a 59-year-old insurance agent who was still deciding who to support in the Democratic primary. She told me she liked...
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