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Media Round-Up: Week of October 23rd

  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 Midterms Could Set A New Record For Female Governors — And Send Fewer Women To Congress Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Meredith Conroy, FiveThirtyEight This election year could be record-setting …

Media Round-Up: Week of October 16th

  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 U.S. has never had a lesbian governor. These two women could change that. Matt Lavietes, MSNBC If gubernatorial candidates Maura Healey and Tina Kotek win …

Media Round-Up: Week of October 9th

  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: Abortion is a key motivator for US voters in midterm elections, new survey finds Deidre McPhillips, CNN According to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, …

Don’t Forget the (Independent) Women

  While women are registering to vote in massive numbers following the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Mississippi, those numbers have been shown to be concentrated in some states over others. The surge has been greatest in the states where abortion access is directly on the ballot, like Kansas, or those where the outcome …

A Conversation with Ali Vitali

  NBC Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali’s new book, Electable, explores gender dynamics for women candidates in the 2020 Presidential Election, and asks what it will take to finally put a woman in the White House. In this post, Vitali virtually sits down with the Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s Executive Director Amanda Hunter for a …

Media Round-Up: Week of October 2nd

  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:   Women Are Registering to Vote in Huge Numbers in Response to the Roe Decision Fortesa Latifi, Teen Vogue TargetSmart, a political data research organization, reports that …

New AARP Poll: Women 50+ Are Energized To Vote…and Still Making Up Their Minds

With just weeks left until the midterm elections, AARP has just released poll results from the latest in our She’s the Difference research series conducted in partnership with pollsters Celinda Lake, Christine Matthews, Kristen Soltis Anderson, and Margie Omero. In short, women 50+ – the biggest bloc of swing voters – are energized to vote in November, …

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