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Friday, August 31, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Politics is a ‘rough and tough game’, but women are more than cut out for it
Women's Agenda
Early this week, Victorian MP Julia Banks announced that she would not contest her seat at the next election and would be leaving Parliament citing last week’s dramatic leadership spill as “the final straw”. Banks, a supporter of former Prime...
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Multimedia
Video: The year of the woman in politics
Daily Local
A record-breaking number of women are running for office in 2018. CNN's Brooke Baldwin hits the trail with some of the women looking to make history, gaining unprecedented access and behind-the-scenes coverage of a historical election cycle. Click...
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Cynthia Nixon asked to turn down the AC. It isn’t silly. It’s symbolic
The Washington Post
On Tuesday, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made a request that seemed both trivial and audacious. For an upcoming Democratic primary debate with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she wanted the thermostat set to 76 degrees. It was the kind of news...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Nevada women on path to break major political barrier
NBC News
Lesia Romanov, the assistant principal at an at-risk elementary school on the outskirts of town, is running for the Nevada state assembly against a brothel owner and self-proclaimed pimp, Dennis Hof. The paradox could not be greater. And for women...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Arizona will send a woman to the senate for the first time ever
Broadly
Arizona’s Senate race turned into an all-women contest Tuesday night after voters tapped Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally to represent their respective parties in November’s general election. Both women are vying for the seat...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018
For female candidates, harassment and threats come every day
The New York Times
Four days before the 2016 congressional primary in her Northern California district, Erin Schrode woke up to tens of thousands of messages. They were everywhere: in her email, on her cellphone, on her Facebook and her Twitter and her Instagram. “All...
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Friday, August 24, 2018
How the next generation of women lawmakers can change America
Forbes
In this crazy, politically volatile year, there’s been plenty to worry about. But amongst all the trouble, there’s a sign of hope: more women have won major party nominations in 2018 than ever before. The year and a half since Trump’s nomination has...
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Monday, August 20, 2018
Smashing records: More women have won primaries than ever before
NBC News
Women are not just running for office in record numbers this year — they are winning. More women than ever before have won major party primaries for governor, U.S. Senate and House this year — paving the way for November battles that could...
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Friday, August 17, 2018
Democratic women candidates continue to expand their numbers, Republicans stay static
Open Secrets
Results from Tuesday night’s primaries in four states offered yet another strong showing by women candidates this cycle, particularly on the Democratic side. CRP took this opportunity to examine the data on women candidates over time, with special...
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Friday, August 17, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
When the resistance meets the polls: A historic week for women politicians
The New York Times
By Maya Salam, Yes, that’s the sound of glass shattering ahead of the midterm elections. And female candidates are stomping through the wreckage. It’s been an election year already dominated by a surge of women, and a record number of L.G.B.T....
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Two Democrats are poised to become the first Muslim women in Congress
CNBC
Two Democrats are poised to become the first Muslim women in Congress, offering a sharp counterpoint to the anti-Muslim policies and sentiment surfacing in Washington and across the country. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota state lawmaker and Somali-American...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Christine Hallquist, a transgender woman, wins Vermont Governor’s primary
The New York Times
On a cloudy afternoon this summer, Christine Hallquist, a former utility executive from Vermont, listened closely as Danica Roem, the Virginia state delegate who won national recognitionwhen she became the first transgender person elected to her...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Michigan’s all-female ticket may mark the start of something different
The Washington Post
This year, Democrats in Michigan have done something unprecedented. They have selected women to be their standard-bearers for every statewide office on the November ballot: governor, U.S. senator, attorney general and secretary of state. Which is...
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Monday, August 13, 2018
Candidates in Tuesday’s primaries poised to break barriers for women of color and LGBTQ community
The Lily
Voters head to the polls in Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Vermont on Tuesday. This week’s round of primary voting will once again set the stage for more history-making moments for women in politics. Voters head to the polls in Connecticut,...
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Monday, August 13, 2018
‘Don’t run this Year.’ The perils for republican women facing a flood of resistance
The New York Times
By Kate Zernike, The energy in the midterms is working against female Republican candidates who are reluctant or unable to claim any advantage to being a woman among voters. Diane Harkey, the Republican candidate for California’s 49th Congressional...
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Friday, August 10, 2018
US: Female veterans run for congress
CNN
MJ Hegar does not hold back. "I'm an ass kicking, motorcycle-riding, Texas Democrat. That's who I am!" She says that emphatically, unblinkingly and unapologetically to a constituent at a political meet-and-greet in a suburban Austin, Texas, home....
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Friday, August 10, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Electing more women would change congress (but not make it more bipartisan)
NPR
By Danielle Kurtzleben, In October of 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days — the third longest shutdown in history. A few women in particular came together to end the gridlock, including Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women just broke a record: The most female nominees for governor in a single year
The Washington Post
By Amber Phillips, Nowhere is there a stronger gender disparity in U.S. politics than in governor’s mansions. Right now there are a grand total of six female governors. Tuesday may go down as a day that helps change that dismal number. Primary...
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