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: Politics is finally a coed sport. So, what rules apply? By Ruth Marcus, Washington Post From likability and electability to exploitation online, we are at a unique …

  It’s officially the spookiest day of the year: Halloween. Instead of celebrating with scary movies or ghost stories, we’re diving into one of the scariest topics we know: stats about gender equality. At its current pace, it’s going to take the United States 208 years to close the gender gap. The world average is …

  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: An all-female panel will moderate the November Democratic debate By Li Zhou, Vox On Wednesday, MSNBC announced the moderators for the fifth Democratic debate—and none of them …

  The race to 2020 has seen a record number of women candidates, women on the debate stage and a DNC rule which requires at least one woman moderator for every primary debate. But, despite these historic accomplishments, “women’s issues” are almost invisible when it comes to the past four debate stages. Perhaps the problem …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up: Debate Edition. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week: It’s Time to Start Asking Candidates Better Questions in the Presidential Debates By Stephanie Eckardt, W Magazine This Tuesday, twelve Democratic candidates took to the …

  What do former candidates Gina Ortiz Jones, Hiral Tipirneni, and Young Kim all have in common? They are women of color making another attempt to win a congressional seat. If elected in 2020, these female candidates (and many others across the nation) will help address the disproportionately low numbers of women of color in …

  The fourth Democratic debate featured 12 candidates, the largest field we’ve seen on one stage yet, and a record number of women candidates. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard showed the importance of having multiple women with different points on view on stage. The Barbara Lee Family …

  As we head into the fourth democratic primary debate of the cycle, here’s what I’ll be looking for: History in Progress: A record number of women on the debate stage We’ve heard a lot about the record number of candidates that will take the stage next week – 12 in total, but that’s not …

  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: I’m a First Lady, and It’s an Incredibly Weird Job By Eliza Reid, New York Times Eliza Reid knows better than anyone that the First Lady is …

  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: The 25 Most Powerful Women in Politics By Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune After careful consideration, Emma Hinchliffe has released her list of the “25 Most Powerful Women in …