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: Kirsten Gillibrand just dropped out of the Democratic presidential race By Heather Marcoux, Motherly A study by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation looks at the common misconception …

  In 2018, teachers across the nation went on strike in order to demand higher pay, more resources, and more support for the American public school system. We saw women take the leap from marching and protesting to running for office, and some teachers decided to do the same. One teacher – a law school …

  The influence of the #MeToo movement. The historic number of diverse women elected in 2018. The fact that multiple women have been on the last two presidential debate stages – and will be on the next one. All of these factors make the 2020 presidential race feel incredibly different from the 2016 one. But, …

WBZ NewsRadio | Laurie Kirby When you have multiple women on the debate stage, “What changes… is that women don’t have to be the sole representative of their gender,” Amanda Hunter, the Research and Communication Director at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, said. The Foundation is a partner of Gender on the Ballot, a nonpartisan …

  The “Me Too” movement was founded more than a decade ago by civil rights activist Tarana Burke, but it has more recently gained international attention as people around the world began using social media to share their experiences with sexual harassment. The reach of the “Me Too” movement extends into politics, with 51% of …

This post is adapted from remarks I gave at the Suffrage Centennial Kick-Off Celebration on June 25, 2019, through the Greater Boston Women’s Vote Centennial project.   So many of my heroes come from the women’s suffrage era, starting with my own Gramma Minnie, who used to tell me about growing up in the time …

Marie Aberger, Founding Partner at Be Clear When viewers turn on a local TV political show, they’re twice as likely to hear a man’s views as they are a woman’s views. In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to secure a major party Presidential nomination. In the 2018 midterm elections, more women were elected …