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Friday, August 05, 2016
What Clinton’s candidacy means to women worldwide
New article presents an analysis and implications for women’s political empowerment of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. But as she is lauded at home with a historic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton is being praised abroad for decades of quiet...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
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When Women Run
Erin Vilardi is the Founder and Director of VoteRunLead, leveraging technology and training to accelerate the number of women in civic and political leadership. In her Personal Democracy Forum 2016 talk, Vilardi explains how peer-to-peer organizing...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Workshop on Public Speaking: Effective Presentation and Communications
Fear of public speaking is the most common phobia and prevents many people from achieving their potential. Can you imagine all that you could accomplish if you were comfortable speaking in public and took every opportunity presented to share your...
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Why the Gender Leadership Gap is so much worse for women of color
"From corporate boardrooms to the halls of Congress, from universities to the courts, from religious institutions to philanthropic organizations, men are simply much more likely than women to be leaders." This, according to a new report from the...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Where are the women in political campaigns?
Hosted by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin, Stuff Mom Never Told You is the audio podcast from HowStuffWorks that gets down to the business of being women from every imaginable angle. Fueled by boundless curiosity and rigorous research, Cristen...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Where is the data on women’s leadership in public institutions?
The Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, the University of Pittsburgh and the United Nations Development Programme are co-organizing the event “Where is the data on women’s leadership in public institutions?” In August...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Women's political empowerment and American presidential elections discussed in The New Yorker
Dr. Jill Lepore, Professor of American History at Harvard University, has published an article in The New Yorker, entitled ‘The Sovereignty of Women’. The article deals with the historical difficulties of women to be fully recognized as political...
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Thursday, April 07, 2016
Guide / Training Material
Women's Campaign School at Yale University
Celebrating its twenty-second year of existence this summer, the Women's Campaign School at Yale University (WCS) is a non-partisan, issue neutral leadership program, whose mission is to improve women’s political participation by increasing their...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Women, Peace & Security Women in the Military: Lessons on Leading and Women’s Expanded Role in Combat
As part of the bi-monthly “Women, Peace and Security” breakfast series, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) are organizing a breakfast event around the theme of “Women in the...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Workshop on Advocacy and Politics in Dallas
The Advocacy and Politics Workshop will take place in Dallas, on March 4, 2016. It will include an introduction to advocacy and campaign strategy as well as a Fundraising for Advocates course and Political Fundraising Fundamentals. This workshop is...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Workshop: Careers in Politics
The Careers in politics Workshop will take place in Miami on February 19, 2016. This four-hour workshop will cover these five highly needed political careers today for women: Strategists, lobbyists, communications, consultants, social media...
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Case Study
Women and Leadership: Public Says Women are Equally Qualified, but Barriers Persist
This report explores public attitudes about gender and leadership with a particular focus on leadership in U.S. politics and business. The analysis is based on two new Pew Research Center surveys. In addition to the surveys, this report draws on...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Why Women Are the Supervoters in This Year's Midterm Elections, USA
Women across the country do amazing and powerful things every day, but we have a special superpower right now: Our votes. Why are we so powerful right now? Why are we "Supervoters?" Because in the upcoming midterm elections, control of the U.S....
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Why Women’s Role in Politics Is More Important Than Ever
When Elizabeth Warren was first approached to run for public office in 2011 by Emily's List president Stephanie Schriock, she said no. She had a plan for her life and government service was not a part of it. As she tells this story at Monday’s Emily...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Women's role in politics is still a work in progress on anniversary of 19th amendment
Today marks the anniversary of a historic day in American politics — the day women received the same opportunity as men to vote for the individuals that represented them. Activists and advocates across the nation are celebrating the 94th anniversary...
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Stephanie Chang
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Wanted: Young candidates of color to shake up politics scene
Photo-stephaniechang.com When Stephanie Chang began knocking on doors in and around Detroit in pursuit of a statehouse seat in the Michigan legislature, the most common question she received didn’t have anything to do with her policy positions or...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Where are women winning? In state legislatures (USA)
Fewer than one in five members of Congress in the US is a woman -- and that's actually a record high. But one place where women are faring better is in state legislatures. Across the nation, nearly one-quarter (24.2 percent) of all state legislators...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Women's Groups Use SOTU to Stake Out Agenda
While President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Jan. 28 fell short of the peroration about economic inequality that partisans had either hoped or feared, it did offer women's groups a chance to showcase political and legislative...
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