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Friday, November 23, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
GOP is trying to figure out why it has almost no women in Congress
Penn Live
WASHINGTON (AP) — For congressional Republicans, this month’s elections ushered in the year of the woman — literally. West Virginia's Carol Miller will be the only Republican woman entering the 435-member House as a newcomer in January. She'll join...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
100 years on, female MPs are still too few
The Guardian
By Helen Pankhurst and 19 others, This week marks 100 years since the first women gained the right to stand for election to the House of Commons – a landmark in Britain’s democratic history. Sadly, however, women continue to be desperately under-...
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Monday, November 19, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
How many husbands control the votes of their wives? We'll never know
The Guardian
By Rebecca Solnit, Progressive organizer Annabel Park told the story that made me start to wonder. “I can’t stop thinking about this woman I met while doorknocking for Beto in Dallas,” Annabel wrote on social media a few days before the midterm...
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Friday, November 16, 2018
Multimedia
Can quotas solve gender inequality in government?
PRI
The November 2018 election in the US will go down for a number of firsts. The first Somali American Muslim woman to be elected to office. The first Native American woman sent to Congress. And a record number of women elected to the House of...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women in politics face constant sexist attacks, proving progress is only partial
Daily Bruin
By Ani Gasparyan, The 2018 midterm elections made significant strides for the Democratic Party. But the same can’t be said for women in politics. A record number of women ran this year and won seats in Congress. A total of 256 women ran for office...
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Friday, November 09, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women in politics are the new, unexceptional normal
Longview News Journal
By Soraya Chemaly, The midterm elections saw a cascade of historical firsts for women, as the first Muslim women (Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Democrat Ilhan Omar, a Somali American former refugee in Minnesota) and Texas’ first Latinas (...
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Friday, November 09, 2018
American women won at the ballot in record numbers. Here’s what’s next
Roll Call
Historic wins for women in the midterm elections drove home the interpretation that 2018 was, indeed, the “Year of the Woman.” But it remains unknown whether women’s political capital will continue to rise. The 101 women and counting who won House...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Voters send record number of women to US Congress
Politico
Female candidates for Congress made history on Tuesday night, with more than 100 women sweeping into office on the strength of a Democratic House takeover powered in large part by college-educated female voters. The women winning House seats also...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins, becoming youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress
The Huffington Post
Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her race for a U.S. House seat in New York’s 14th District on Tuesday, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. The 29-year-old political newcomer made headlines nationwide in June when...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018
A list of firsts for women in this year's midterm elections
NPR
With women making up only 20 percent of Congress, there are many types of women — especially women of color — who have never been represented on Capitol Hill. The record-breaking wave of female candidates in 2018 comes with a list of firsts among...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2018
12 charts that explain the record-breaking year women have had in American politics
VOX
Even before the votes are in, the numbers prove it: 2018 is the Year of the Woman. If Democrats retake the House, the Senate, or both, it’ll be because women launched the most effective, sustained resistance in generations, thousands more women...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2018
13 Questions about women and the midterms
The New York Times
By Susan Chira Conventional wisdom on women and politics goes like this: Women must pile up credentials because voters see men as more qualified.  Women are trusted on issues like education, health care and children; men on national security, crime...
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Friday, November 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
11 states have no women in congress. These candidates are trying to change that
Vice News
By Carter Sherman, Kathleen Williams had a ritual for getting through a tough day back when she staffed the Montana Legislature: She’d go visit Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Well, not really. Since...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Female candidates break barriers, except when it comes to money
The New York Times
Rashida Tlaib, running in a tough six-way Democratic primary for a House seat in Michigan and positioning herself to be the first Muslim woman in Congress, was thrilled when a man who champions Muslim candidates across the country donated just under...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women candidates rewrite the political playbook
Gender Watch 2018
The impact of record numbers of women candidates has already been felt this election cycle. The #MeToo movement and anger about the outcome of the 2016 presidential contest has driven women to break free from some of the conventions that have...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Women candidates poised to make history in 2018 midterm elections
CBS News
The 1992 election is often referred to as "The Year of the Woman," as more women were elected to Congress than any year before. This year is set to be another record-breaking year by the same measure, and several women are poised to make history due...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Interviews
5 women in politics on the importance of female leadership in the U.S Government
Coverteur
In 1991, Anita Hill testified about her allegations of sexual harassment against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. As she stood before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hill was attacked, vilified, and dismissed by a group of 14 senators—all...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
We too: At gathering of nations, women’s voices ring loud
AP News
By Angela Charlton, In a pivotal week for women in the United States, the U.N. put forth its own clarion set of female voices at its annual meeting of nations. And women’s empowerment was only one of their rallying cries. At the U.N. General...
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