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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women’s power disparity in public: lecture on gender, authority and rape culture
Iowa State Daily
At a lecture Tuesday at the Memorial Union, Bonnie Stabile, associate dean for student and academic affairs and associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, spoke on the politics and policy around...
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Thursday, September 07, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Was Edith Wilson the first female president of the United States?
The Collector
Edith Wilson, First Lady and second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, achieved many firsts during her tenure as First Lady. In fact, she was the first First Lady to travel to Europe in a political capacity. She took on many roles throughout her...
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Friday, July 14, 2023
Women who serve in political office are pushing for more women to get involved
KSHB 41
A town hall Tuesday night featuring women in politics had a clear message: More women need to get involved from running for elective office to helping candidates get elected. “We know women are underrepresented in public leadership roles in Missouri...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women in local politics experience higher rates of online threats compared to men
Bollyinside
A study conducted by local academics in San Diego County found that elected officials, especially women, are increasingly becoming targets of intimidation and threats on social media.– Researchers reviewed the Twitter accounts of elected officials...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2023
Academic Paper / Article
Women’s interest in entering politics surged after Dobbs. So why aren’t they running?
Roll Call
Susanna Gibson remembers where she was and what she was doing on June 24, 2022, the way some remember 9/11 or the Challenger explosion. The nurse practitioner was sitting at her kitchen table in Henrico, Va., going over some patient charts, when her...
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CNN
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why there are more Republican women in Congress than ever before
CNN
(CNN) — Lori Chavez-DeRemer sat in the gallery of the House nearly two decades ago with her mom and her twin daughters – tourists peering down at lawmakers on the floor of the chamber. “I’d really love to be here someday,” the Oregon Republican...
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Ms. Magazine - Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey greets supporters at a rally in Boston on Nov. 2, 2022. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images)
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
We need to push harder for women’s representation in leadership
Ms. Magazine
More than 50 percent of the U.S. population is female, so it begs the question: Why are we still so underrepresented in politics? Across the country and in our nation’s capital, our newly elected leaders will soon have taken their oaths of office to...
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Widening the lens: Reimagining leadership among young women of color (NPQ)
Thursday, November 03, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Widening the lens: Reimagining leadership among young women of color
NPQ
There are many ways to step into political leadership in America, and how you go about it is often informed by your background, identity, and experiences. I direct a nonprofit called IGNITE, which trained over 10,000 young women as leaders across 30...
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Why women earn high marks: Examining the role of partisanship and gender in political evaluations (Cambridge Core)
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Academic Paper / Article
Why women earn high marks: Examining the role of partisanship and gender in political evaluations
Cambridge
This article presents the results of a randomized survey experiment demonstrating that the public evaluates women politicians more highly than men across multiple characteristic assessments. This finding is consistent with a recent wave of research...
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The Washington Post, by Melina Mara
Monday, October 17, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women powered Democrats in the 2018 midterms. Will they again in 2022?
The Washington Post
ARVADA, Colo. — Not long after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, Robin Kupernik and Elizabeta Stacishin met for lunch and then went for a walk through the Denver Botanic Gardens. “We were both angry,” Kupernik later...
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Journalist Ali Vitali is the author of "Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House ... Yet" (Molly Roecker)
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Interviews
Why don’t we see women as “electable”?
Poynter
Journalist Ali Vitali covered female presidential candidates in 2020. Now she reflects on what got in their way. As coverage of the 2022 midterms continues, NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali is ready to see more women running for office...
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The exterior of the US Capitol is seen on August 7, 2021 in Washington, DC. (CNN)
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Women candidates set records in 2022 midterms as gender becomes a primary theme in national discourse, research group says
CNN
(CNN) 2022 marks a record high for women running in gubernatorial and Senate races, but the total number of women running for the House of Representatives fell slightly from previous cycles, according to an analysis by the Center for American Women...
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NBC
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Who is Kathy Hochul? N.Y. To Get First Female Governor
New York will get their first female governor after Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned over sexual harassment allegations. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will take over running the state. NBC News’ Allison Morris reports on Hochul’s career.  Source: NBC News
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is one of the highest paid staffers in the Biden administration. (PHOTO BY KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES)
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Women in the Biden White House earn 99 cents for every $1 earned by men
The 19th
The Biden White House has the narrowest wage gap since the country started tracking it in 1995, according to salary data released Thursday. President Joe Biden’s White House has the narrowest gender pay gap of any administration since 1995,...
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Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Women who lose close elections are just as likely to run again as men
Harvard Kennedy School
Study published in PNAS finds no gender difference in decision to run for office again after losing a close race. Women who lose local or state elections are just as likely to run for office again as men, suggesting the recent surge in women running...
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Represent Women
Monday, February 01, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
What the Biden Cabinet signals about gender parity's importance to democracy
The Fulcrum
By Cynthia Richie Terrell President Biden's proposed Cabinet would have 24 members. Assuming the newly Democratic Senate confirms all of his nominees, a process that got started last week, it would be the most diverse Cabinet in history and the...
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley poses with Assistant Speaker of the House Katherine Clark. (@AyannaPressley / Twitter)
Monday, December 07, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
What would it take to double the representation of women in the US Congress by 2050?
Ms. Magazine
Twenty years ago, the U.S. ranked 48th internationally for women’s representation. In 2021, we will rank 70th—that’s a sizable drop. But it doesn’t have to be like this. While this is technically a “record” breaking year for the numbers of women...
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why did it take so long to vote a woman into the White House?
Tampa Bay Times
To me, the banner story of this election season was not Joe Biden’s victory. It was the history-making of vice president-elect Kamala Harris. Here was a woman who had broken so many barriers. Not only is she the first woman to hold the office, but...
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