Month: April 2022

Media Round-Up: Week of April 24th
| Apr 29, 2022

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   From The First Lady, Gaslit to Anatomy of a Scandal, women in US politics are stepping out of their shadows Archita Kashyap, First Post    In …

New BLFF Research: Shared Hurdles: How Political Races Change When Two Women Compete
| Apr 26, 2022

  Read the full memo here. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s innovative new research, Shared Hurdles: How Political Races Change When Two Women Compete focuses on the interaction between a candidate’s race, political party, and gender when more than one woman is on the ballot—and reveals voters’ opinions on woman vs. woman races.   Key …

Media Round-Up: Week of April 17th
| Apr 22, 2022

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Florida’s redistricting fight continues. The head of the state League of Women Voters talks about what’s at stake. Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th*  On Tuesday, Florida state …

Portrait of young African-American woman wearing mask putting vote bulletin in ballot box and looking at camera while standing against American flag
The Lay of the Land for Women Voters in 2022
| Apr 18, 2022

Cancelled concerts. The first day of Zoom school. FaceTime with friends. We all remember the surreal and frightening early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the two years and one month since our country went into a state of emergency, almost one million American lives have been lost to the virus. Many of the financial …

Media Round-Up: Week of April 10th
| Apr 15, 2022

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Mississippi’s equal pay bill could worsen the wage gap, critics say Anne Branigin, Washington Post  Currently, Mississippi remains the only state without an equal pay bill; …

Sarah Bloom Raskin, a role model for every woman who aspires to lead and write HERstory
| Apr 11, 2022

  Earlier this year, Sarah Bloom Raskin’s withdrawal of her nomination to the Federal Reserve board of directors reminded me that the ground isn’t level for women seeking public leadership, nor are the steps up the leadership ladder easily traversed. No matter how qualified you are. No matter, as this case makes clear, when a …

Breaking Down Barriers
| Apr 8, 2022

  When I ran for Congress in 2018, my children were one and three years old. For months, I made calls to donors while nursing my son and with my daughter covering my head in hair clips. Although my mother could watch my children every day after 3:30PM, most of the time I changed diapers …

Media Round-Up: Week of April 3rd
| Apr 8, 2022

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Twitter’s ‘safety mode’ could shield politicians from harassment. It could also silence critics. Cristiano Lima, Washington Post   For the past couple of months, Twitter has …

Media Round-Up: Week of March 27th
| Apr 1, 2022

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round-Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   A California first: woman signs bill into state law Adam Beam, The Associated Press   For the first time in California’s history, a woman has signed a …

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