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Monday, November 09, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
What election of Kamala Harris means to future of women in politics
Mirage News
When the networks declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential race, it was a history making moment for both the president-elect and his running mate Kamala Harris, whose election broke multiple barriers. Debbie Walsh, director of the ...
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Friday, November 06, 2020
Women activists emphasize the need for female empowerment in politics
Johns Hopkins Newsletter
The Aronson Center for International Studies held the third event in its 2020 Fall Speaker Series on Human Rights to discuss the topic of “Women and Conflict” on Thursday, Oct. 29. Sarah Parkinson, an assistant professor of International Studies and...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Who was Victoria Woodhull? Meet the first woman to run for president of the United States
Independent
The first woman to run for president of the United States was unable to vote, too young to be elected, ignored by her chosen running mate, and ultimately thrown into prison on election day. Yet Victoria Woodhull, a thrice-married mother of two, was...
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Friday, August 21, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women don't need to 'lean in' like men – men need to lead more like women
The Guardian
By Arwa Mahdawi, Men could learn a thing or two from women, study finds Jair Bolsonaro reckons he has mold in his lungs. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, meanwhile, seem to have mold in their brains. Brazil, the US, and the UK have some of the...
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. They didn’t start voting differently from men until 1980
Five Thirty Eight
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Meredith Conroy, Women officially won the right to vote just a few months before the 1920 presidential election, and as soon as the 19th Amendment was ratified, suffragists were predicting a sea change in American...
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Monday, August 17, 2020
Multimedia
Women in Politics in the US: Three good signs we're closing the gender gap
NBC New York
The country is rightly talking about Kamala Harris. But NBCLX’ Noah Pransky details three good signs that the signs of progress for women politicians doesn't stop there. - Record number of Congressional nominees – According to the Center for...
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Data and Statistics
Women elected officials database
CAWP
The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, is proud to announce the launch of the online CAWP Women Elected Officials Database, a first-of-its-kind tool for exploring and...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Women candidates won big in June primaries
Vox
The June 2 primaries were a major night for women candidates, so much so that in multiple House races in New Mexico, Indiana, and Iowa, voters will choose between two women candidates this fall. Take New Mexico, where, according to primary results...
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Data and Statistics
Women’s political representation and legislative achievements: How women are changing state legislatures
National Women's Law Center
Women made great strides in political representation in 2018. There has been significant media attention devoted to the historic gains women made in Congress, but the shift in political representation the states was equally significant. Women’s...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why do people really dislike the women running for President?
The Cut
By Amanda Arnold, Regardless of their stance on universal health care, their voting record, or endorsements, the women running for president have been haunted by the same question: Are they “likable”? While all politicians are evaluated in terms of...
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Friday, November 22, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women and politics: Too emotional?
International Policy Digest
By Becca Blaser, In a recent Twitter exchange, a female journalist stated that United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “frequent crying” reinforce stereotypes that women are too emotional for politics. The journalist was...
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Friday, October 11, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why American politics needs gender quota
The Hill
By Adriana Piatti-Crocker, After the 2018 elections, many Americans celebrated the unprecedented number of women gaining seats to Congress. There was reason to celebrate: both the House and Senate included more women than ever before, with...
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Friday, August 30, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women ran. Women won. Women changed the rules of American politics
The Washington Post
By Kathleen Townsend, “See Jane Win” is a bracing antidote to that dreadful November election night in 2016 when women of the world watched as their champion, so close to shattering the highest glass ceiling, lost to a self-avowed assaulter. As the...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Women's Equality Day is a timely reminder of the impact women voters have on elections
CNBC
In 1973, Congress declared August 26th "Women's Equality Day." The date, according to the National Women's History Alliance, celebrates the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and brings awareness to the continued...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
When you’re not the ‘pick of the establishment’
The Cut
By Caitlin Moscatello, The past few years have been groundbreaking for women in politics: In 2018, more women campaigned for elected office than at any time in U.S. history, and there are now more women in Congress and state legislatures than ever...
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Friday, August 23, 2019
Women are mysteriously missing from D.C. think tanks’ foreign policy panels. Here’s the data.
The Washington Post
Although women make up half the world’s population and a growing proportion of scholars and analysts, they’re often absent in convenings of “experts.” That’s true across a number of industries, according to an event management company’s report on...
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women candidates are constantly asked about their electability. Here are 5 reasons that’s misguided.
Vox
An August poll highlights a trend that’s emerged in the 2020 presidential cycle thus far: Voters favor Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as one of their top choices for the Democratic nomination when the focus isn’t on “electability.” When it is, they...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women have made huge strides in politics. But we have more to do
Delaware Online
By Suzanne Moore, Karen Peterson and Liane Sorenson, While it seems as if the 2018 election — and its historic gains for women — was only yesterday, the 2020 election is already the subject of considerable national attention. Before focusing on 2020...
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