Earlier this year, our team at Gender on the Ballot polled women nationwide on the most pressing issues in our country right now, from inflation to reproductive rights and trust in our elections. The results are a snapshot of how women are feeling, and the nation’s future. As my boss Barbara Lee often says, …

  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:   Why the wage gap differs among Asian-American women Chabeli Carrazana and Jasmine Mithani, The 19th* AAPI women earn 80 cents per every dollar earned by White …

  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 – …

  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. …

  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 …

  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 …