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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Fury is a political weapon. And women need to wield it
The New York Times
By Rebecca Traister, What the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh showed us about who gets to be angry in public. By Rebecca Traister, Ms. Traister is the author of “Good and mad: The revolutionary power of women’s anger.” Inside...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Paulette Jordan could become the nation's first native American Governor
Elle
As told to Madison Felleras, If Paulette Jordan wins Idaho’s governor race this November, she’ll be the first female governor of the state and the nation’s first Native American governor. It’ll be a tough race—she’s running in a deep red state that...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Four colored girls who have considered politics: Enter the halls of power. America needs us
USA Today
By Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore, political activists and co-authors of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics," coming Oct. 2. As black women, our very existence is political. It’s time for us — whether we’...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Nevada leads the way for women in politics
The Reno Gazette Journal and HuffPost will co-host a bi-partisan panel discussion about women in politics in Nevada at the University of Nevada, Reno. The panel comes at time when Nevada could become the first state with a female majority in its...
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
The Guardian view on US politics: No hearing for women
The Guardian
By Brett Kavanaugh, Can you trust women? This is the question at the heart of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the supreme court. It was evident long before Thursday’s senate judiciary committee hearings addressing Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation...
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
If you want more women in politics, don’t look to the GOP
The Washington Post
By Jennifer Rubin, The Pew Research Center has some interesting data on voters’ views about the gender gap in politics: Republicans and Democrats have widely different views about where things stand today and what factors are holding women back....
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Report / White Paper
PEW Research Center: Women and Leadership 2018
PEW Research Center
By Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Ruth Igielnik and Kim Parker, Two years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, and with a record number of women running for Congress in 2018, a...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Is the record number of women candidates a 2018 blip — or a lasting trend?
NPR
Lauren Underwood, Democratic House candidate in Illinois' 14th district, is part of a record boom of women running for office in 2018 – from Congress to governorships to state legislatures across the country. But she didn't just wake up one day and...
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Friday, September 14, 2018
NYSAC fall seminar: women's leadership roundtables
The New York State Association of Counties is organizing a seminar to connect and share experiences across regions and party lines, learn from one another, support other women in government, and acquire new leadership skills. This workshop is a...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Here are some of the women who could make history in the Midterm Elections
Time Magazine
 Already in 2018, women candidates have broken the records for the number of candidates for governor, U.S. House and U.S. Senate. Depending on how the midterms go, they may make history again. The November elections could see the first black woman...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
By the numbers: women congressional candidates in 2018
Cawp Rutgers
All congressional primary elections other than Louisiana (which holds a jungle primary on November 6th) are now complete, giving us the opportunity to take stock of women's candidacies and put their successes into context. Note that our findings on...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
How I learned to embrace power as a woman in Washington
Politico
By Wendy R. Sherman, In 2011, when I heard that Bill Burns was going to be named deputy secretary of state under Secretary Hillary Clinton, I called Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s chief of staff. I wanted to let her know I was interested in replacing Bill...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Meet Morgan Murtaugh, the youngest female congressional candidate
The Federalist
A young, female 20-something is looking to upset how things are done in Washington D.C. by defeating a long-entrenched incumbent. She’s the youngest person running for Congress in 2018. She’s not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s not even a Democrat....
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
‘And I’m a mom.’ Candidates and voters warm to kids on the trail
The New York Times
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Mikie Sherrill, Democratic candidate for Congress, had finished a radio interview and was heading toward the stage at the local library where a crowd waited for her to begin an event with the mayor and a native-son-turned-...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
‘Something has actually changed’: Women, minorities, first-time candidates drive Democratic House hopes
Politico
A flood of women, minorities and first-time candidates is poised to radically alter the composition of Congress next year after winning Democratic primaries in record numbers in 2018. White men are in the minority in the House Democratic candidate...
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Friday, September 07, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
US: 2018 is the year of the woman on the ballot
CNN
By Brooke Baldwin, Cara McClure explains her decision this way. "I wasn't planning on running, and then I woke up that morning feeling guilty ... because I have so much to offer." McClure once battled homelessness as a single mother. But her...
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Thursday, September 06, 2018
In 2018, black women like Ayanna Pressley are fighting for political power — and winning
VOX
Ayanna Pressley pulled off an unexpected victory on Tuesday in the Democratic congressional primary in Massachusetts’s Seventh District, beating 10-term incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano with 59 percent of the vote. Barring a last-minute write-in...
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Will toxic politics stem the surge in women candidates?
Real Clear Politics
When Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, it sparked a surge of female candidates. According to Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, nearly 500 women initially filed to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, 54 filed...
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