Month: March 2023

Gender + politics
Gender + Politics Media Round-Up: Week of March 26th
| Mar 31, 2023

  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: Is Empowering Corporate Women Enough? Emma Goldberg, New York Times Chief is a women’s leadership network offering executive coaching and big-name specker sessions for female executives – …

How Did Women’s History Month Come To Be?
How Did Women’s History Month Come To Be?
| Mar 31, 2023

  Women’s History Month is celebrated every year, but did you ever wonder how it came to be? Barbara Lee, Founder of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, realized the lack of women in her history book from grade school. This realization along with other challenges facing women inspired Lee to start our nonpartisan research organization. …

A Woman Was There: Unsung Women Politicians in History
| Mar 29, 2023

  Welcome to our new series “A Woman Was There,” where the Gender on the Ballot Team will highlight little known facts about unsung women in politics during monumental moments in history. For our first edition of the series, we’re highlighting women politicians on the federal and state level from the 20th century who were …

gender + poltics
Gender + Politics Media Round-Up: Week of March 19th
| Mar 24, 2023

  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:   Nearly 300,000 women served during the Iraq War. Two decades later, they remain ‘the invisible veterans.’ Mariel Padilla, The 19th* Over a quarter million service women …

Candidates for President and Senate 2024
Women Who Have Announced Candidacy for President and Senate 2024
| Mar 20, 2023

  Almost three months into the year, at least six women have announced their plans to run for the presidency and the Senate in the 2024 election cycle. As we wait to see more women announce their campaign plans for 2024, below is a list of those who are already in the field.   Presidential …

Media Round-Up: Week of March 12th
| Mar 17, 2023

  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: Equal Pay Day? Not for teachers. Why men make more than women in female-dominated field. Alia Wong, USA Today According to a new research brief from the …

AARP RESEARCH SHOWS WOMEN AGE 50+
AARP Research Shows Women Age 50+ Consistently More Economically Vulnerable Than Men
| Mar 14, 2023

  The calendar says its Equal Pay Day, but it feels more like the movie Groundhog Day when it comes to the gender pay gap and women’s economic security. Once again, it took the average woman close to fifteen months – from January 1, 2022, to March 14, 2023 — to earn as much as …

8 Women Politicians Who Were Girl Scouts
| Mar 12, 2023

  Happy Girl Scouts Day!Founded on this day in 1912 in Savannah, Georgia, the Girl Scouts of the USA is a youth organization for girls that promotes ideals such as leadership and compassion through activities like community service and learning first aid. Over half (58%) of the women in the record-breaking 116th Congress in 2018 …

Women in politics
Media Round-Up: Week of March 5th
| Mar 10, 2023

  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:   Republicans could flip a number of Senate seats in 2024. Will women candidates benefit? Grace Panetta, The 19th* The number of Republican women in elected office …

Media Round Up
Media Round-Up: Week of February 26th
| Mar 3, 2023

  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:   Dads get paid more when they have kids — as moms earn less Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th* New studies from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday …

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