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Friday, July 27, 2018
US: Meet the women candidates taking #MeToo to the ballot box
NBC
First Donald Trump inspired Katie Muth to tell her husband about her rape, then he galvanized her into running for office. Muth had been married for about five years, but never told her husband about the man she says raped her after the rehearsal...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
Obama says ‘men have been getting on my nerves lately,’ urges women to enter political fray
The Washington Post
Men in positions of power are dropping the ball, according to former president Barack Obama, who thinks perhaps a way to fix that is to get more women at the table. Democrats, in particular, have high hopes for the impact women could make in the...
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Monday, July 16, 2018
Forget suits. Show the tattoo. Female candidates are breaking the rules
NY Times
After years of being told to put on a suit and recite their résumé, women running for office are now revealing themselves in more complex ways. The guys at the union hall have just swapped out the first keg when Abby Finkenauer, Democratic candidate...
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Friday, July 06, 2018
US: Married suburban women could be pivotal in the battle for Congress — but for which side?
Stltoday
At a McAlister's Deli, tucked in one of the miles of strip malls that line Manchester Road among the shoulder-to-shoulder suburbs of west St. Louis County, Helen McCauley and her daughter Sara didn't hesitate when asked recently about the coming...
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Friday, July 06, 2018
Trump inspires more women candidates in Hawaii
Civil Beat
Statewide, females make up 38 percent of candidates this year, compared to 32 percent in the prior election cycle. More women in Hawaii are running for office in 2018 than in the last election cycle two years ago, following a nationwide trend. In...
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Thursday, July 05, 2018
US: Why young women might get more women elected
FiveThirtyEight
The 2018 midterm elections are shaping up to be a watershed year for women and politics. Not only are a record number of women running for political office in 2018, but many of them are running campaigns that tout the underrepresentation of women in...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Millennial beats veteran Democrat
BBC
A millennial candidate has shaken up the US Democratic Party by defeating the incumbent congressman for his seat. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated political veteran Joe Crowley, 56, on Tuesday night in their party's congressional primary in...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
Interviews
Ruth Mandel
Framed photos of trailblazing political women line the walls and bookshelves of a second floor corner office of Ruth Mandel, co-founder of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. See here Mandel's interview with NorthJersey...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Anti-harassment panel will look for ways to promote more women in politics, Mendoza says
Chicago Tribune
Democratic state Comptroller Susana Mendoza says the party’s panel on sexual harassment issues will go beyond that subject to look at ways to recruit more women to run for public office. Mendoza serves on the panel dealing with “anti-harassment and...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
'Women in Politics Night' in the Newburyport Public Library
The Greater Newburyport Women In Action Huddle has scheduled “Women in Politics Night” for June 14 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Newburyport Public Library program room. Candidates Jennifer Rocco-Runnion, Diana DiZoglio and Christina Eckert will...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
US: Record numbers of women are running, but how many can win?
CNN
With primary season underway and a record number of women on ballots nationwide, the question now is how many will make it to office after elections in November. The reality is that many of the women running face long odds. Of the 40 women who have...
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Friday, June 08, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
The women running in the midterms during the Trump era
newyorker
By Margaret Talbot, Four hundred and seventy-two women have entered the race for the House this year, which is a lot of women. Fifty-seven women have filed or are likely to file their candidacies for the Senate. A useful comparison is to 2012, which...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women running for office brings necessary change to American politics
The East Carolinian
By Blessing Aghimien, From the Women’s March to the #MeToo movement, the world has seen a culture shift when it comes to women demanding respect from those in charge. Now, hundreds of women across the country are embarking on a new challenge —...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Win or lose, Tuesday’s primaries are a big deal for women
The New York Times
In a year that has broken records for the number of women running for office, the primaries in eight states this week might be considered Super Tuesday for female candidates. More of them will appear on ballots for congressional and statewide...
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Monday, June 04, 2018
GOP doubles female recruits for congressional races
The Hill
House Republicans have doubled the number of female candidates they have recruited to run for congressional seats this year as they seek to hold their majority and counter accusations of a gender gap with Democrats. There are 103 Republican women,...
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Monday, June 04, 2018
More women file for office, but Oklahoma’s gender gap persists
Oklahoma Watch
Just 35 women filed for one of the 125 Oklahoma legislative seats that were up for election in 2012. This year, there will be nearly four times as many women running for the same number of seats. And following a trend across the nation, women will...
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Friday, June 01, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
US: Will 2018’s ‘pink wave’ of female candidates make it in Congress?
The Washington Post
By Amanda Clayton and Pär Zetterberg, Articles about the “pink wave” — the record number of women who have entered midterm congressional races — are appearing regularly in top media outlets. And as this month’s primaries in Pennsylvania suggest,...
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Friday, June 01, 2018
With more women running for office in US, new opportunities — and challenges — arise
The Washington Post
The historic wave of women running for Congress and governor this year already has landed 78 women on November ballots in several states. It also has revealed an uncomfortable truth: To seize political power in a landscape still dominated by men,...
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