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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  Former Governor Nikki Haley announced her run for president last week, becoming the first former woman governor to run for president and the first Asian American woman to run as a Republican. According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, Haley is the 24th “prominent woman” to run for president, …

  Polls shows that more women than ever are committed to participating in politics, despite recent discouragements. Their willingness is the outcome of a long battle. For much of our history, “stepping up and standing out” was defined as unfeminine and even disloyal. John Adams put this into words in a 1775 letter to his …

  This past week a Virginia Congressional special election made history when voters of Virginia’s CD-4 elected State Senator Jennifer McClellan: she will be the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress. A notable way for Virginia to close out Black History Month. According to data from Pew Research, 57 Black women have ever …