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: The Midterms Could Set A New Record For Female Governors — And Send Fewer Women To Congress Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Meredith Conroy, FiveThirtyEight This election year could be record-setting …

  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:   The U.S. has never had a lesbian governor. These two women could change that. Matt Lavietes, MSNBC If gubernatorial candidates Maura Healey and Tina Kotek win …

  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: Abortion is a key motivator for US voters in midterm elections, new survey finds Deidre McPhillips, CNN According to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, …

  While women are registering to vote in massive numbers following the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Mississippi, those numbers have been shown to be concentrated in some states over others. The surge has been greatest in the states where abortion access is directly on the ballot, like Kansas, or those where the outcome …

  NBC Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali’s new book, Electable, explores gender dynamics for women candidates in the 2020 Presidential Election, and asks what it will take to finally put a woman in the White House. In this post, Vitali virtually sits down with the Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s Executive Director Amanda Hunter for a …

  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:   Women Are Registering to Vote in Huge Numbers in Response to the Roe Decision Fortesa Latifi, Teen Vogue TargetSmart, a political data research organization, reports that …

With just weeks left until the midterm elections, AARP has just released poll results from the latest in our She’s the Difference research series conducted in partnership with pollsters Celinda Lake, Christine Matthews, Kristen Soltis Anderson, and Margie Omero. In short, women 50+ – the biggest bloc of swing voters – are energized to vote in November, …

  The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is in the news lately because three more states have ratified the amendment in recent years: Nevada (2017); Illinois (2018); and Virginia (2020). These state ratifications have presumably given the amendment the necessary thirty-eight state approvals needed for ratification. But questions over the continued viability of the congressional deadline …

Updated 10/12/2023 Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Post last year’s midterm elections, Latina women set new records for seats held in the U.S. Congress and House this year with 19 women serving in the 118th Congress. While this new record is a step toward increased representation, the number of Latina women in Congress is still not …

  It’s been almost 100 years since the inauguration of the first woman governor—Nellie Tayloe Ross in Wyoming—in the United States. More recently, it’s been 14 years since Jan Brewer succeeded Janet Napolitano as governor of Arizona, marking the first time a state had two consecutive women governors. It’s been 12 years since Susana Martinez …