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 19th Explains: The governor’s races we’re watching in 2022 Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th*    Thirty-six states are holding gubernatorial elections this year, and about one-third …

  While much of life is returning to some semblance of “normal,” the economic stresses and strains that we’ve been grappling with since 2020 continue. These challenges are particularly acute for women age 50 and over. For example, AARP research last year found that about 40% of working women 50+ had experienced at least one job interruption …

  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:   From The First Lady, Gaslit to Anatomy of a Scandal, women in US politics are stepping out of their shadows Archita Kashyap, First Post    In …

  Read the full memo here. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s innovative new research, Shared Hurdles: How Political Races Change When Two Women Compete focuses on the interaction between a candidate’s race, political party, and gender when more than one woman is on the ballot—and reveals voters’ opinions on woman vs. woman races.   Key …

With more and more women running for office, races between women candidates will become the norm — not a novelty.

  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:   Florida’s redistricting fight continues. The head of the state League of Women Voters talks about what’s at stake. Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th*  On Tuesday, Florida state …

Cancelled concerts. The first day of Zoom school. FaceTime with friends. We all remember the surreal and frightening early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the two years and one month since our country went into a state of emergency, almost one million American lives have been lost to the virus. Many of the financial …

  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:   Mississippi’s equal pay bill could worsen the wage gap, critics say Anne Branigin, Washington Post  Currently, Mississippi remains the only state without an equal pay bill; …

  Earlier this year, Sarah Bloom Raskin’s withdrawal of her nomination to the Federal Reserve board of directors reminded me that the ground isn’t level for women seeking public leadership, nor are the steps up the leadership ladder easily traversed. No matter how qualified you are. No matter, as this case makes clear, when a …