Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Harris & Cheney display bipartisan unity in birthplace of Republican party The 19th*, Shefali Luthra Ending weeks of speculation, Vice President Kamala Harris (D–California) and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) appeared together for the first …

Read the memo here and the press release here. POLITICO’s Elena Schneider reported on the findings in the news story, “Trump losing ground with women on economy, poll shows.” Register for the virtual discussion of “She Votes 2024: From Issues to Impact” on Wednesday, October 9th at 6pm with Amanda Hunter, Lindsay Vermeyen, Elena Schneider, …

Currently women occupy 12 governors’ seats, 25 U.S. Senate seats, and 126 U.S. House seats. In 2020 six women entered the 2020 Democratic primary. In 2024 one woman was a Republican primary contender. In 2021 the first woman served as vice president, and three of the last presidential elections included a woman at the top …

Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. The Politics of Motherhood Become a Campaign-Trail Cudgel New York Times, Katie Rogers The New York Times explores how the upcoming presidential election has exposed a fault line in the “motherhood divide” – the private …

Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Sarah Huckabee Sanders knocks Harris for not having biological children Washington Post, Amy B. Wang and Hannah Knowles Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders finds herself in hot water after making a comment about Vice …

I have a theory: Increasing representation of women anywhere, increases women’s representation everywhere. Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president is a recent example of how this could work. Let’s examine it. Swift follows the example of Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, and Cardi B, and preceded Billie Eilish. Since Swift’s announcement to her 284 million …

Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Upending Gender Norms at the Debate Following the presidential debate on Tuesday night between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, pundits noted that Harris successfully baited Trump a number of times – …

The Women & Politics Institute (WPI) at American University’s School of Public Affairs (SPA) announced that it will now exclusively operate the non-partisan project, Gender on the Ballot, and house the Foundation’s governor’s research archives, supported with a $500,000 gift from the Barbara Lee Family Foundation (BLFF). Originally co-founded by WPI and BLFF in 2019, …

As we prepare to vote in a historic presidential election—one that, for only the second time in our nation’s history, features a woman’s name at the top of the ticket—I’m eager to explore the significance of gender ON the ballot and gender AT the ballot box. Barring unforeseen developments, we are heading toward the largest …

As an organization that has studied voter perceptions of women in executive office for its 25-year run, in many ways this is our moment. We know from our work that women, and especially women of color, are held to a different and higher standard than men when seeking executive office. We have seen Vice President …