The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is in the news lately because three more states have ratified the amendment in recent years: Nevada (2017); Illinois (2018); and Virginia (2020). These state ratifications have presumably given the amendment the necessary thirty-eight state approvals needed for ratification. But questions over the continued viability of the congressional deadline …

Updated 10/12/2023 Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Post last year’s midterm elections, Latina women set new records for seats held in the U.S. Congress and House this year with 19 women serving in the 118th Congress. While this new record is a step toward increased representation, the number of Latina women in Congress is still not …

  It’s been almost 100 years since the inauguration of the first woman governor—Nellie Tayloe Ross in Wyoming—in the United States. More recently, it’s been 14 years since Jan Brewer succeeded Janet Napolitano as governor of Arizona, marking the first time a state had two consecutive women governors. It’s been 12 years since Susana Martinez …

  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:   Melinda Gates believes women politicians are the answer to America’s paid leave problem. Samantha Barry, Glamour In an interview with Glamour magazine, philanthropist Melinda Gates urged …

  After the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision on Dobbs v Jackson, which overturned legal abortion access, a precedent established by Roe v. Wade in 1973, many political analysts and strategists wondered what the impact would be on the electorate, particularly women. And we now have some preliminary answers. In August, Kansas had an abortion …

  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:   These women could make history in November’s midterms Caroline Vakil, The Hill This November could be a historic midterm election for women candidates. Voters in the …

  Marilyn Loden was a management consultant and author who is credited with coining the phrase “the glass ceiling.” Loden was born in 1946 in New York, and she attended college at Syracuse University in 1968. After college, Loden worked in Human Resources for New York Telephone. In 1978, she was on a panel about …

  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:   A record number of Black candidates for higher offices aim to reshape U.S. politics Tim Craig, Washington Post This fall, a record number of Black peopleare …

  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:   U.S. men’s and women’s soccer teams formally sign equal pay agreements Anne M. Peterson, Associated Press On Tuesday, representatives for the women’s and men’s U.S. national …

It’s election season again, when many female candidates face an onslaught of criticism by political opponents, the media, and on social media for their allegedly depraved sex lives, the width of their hips, their unsuitable clothing, the shrillness of their voices, their unlikeability and untrustworthiness, their unfeminine ambitions, and their unruly emotions. These tried-and-true sexist …