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:   Womontown: How 12 city blocks in Kansas City became a radical enclave by and for women Hannah Bailey, NPR Kansas City Womontown founders Andrea Nedelsky and …

  35 states have finalized their new Congressional and state legislative maps, following redistricting from the 2020 census. Redistricting is a process that happens every 10 years where every state redraws the boundaries of its Congressional and state legislative districts. Every state has a different redistricting process, with some states using maps drawn by the …

Read the memo here and, the press release here. Read more in The 19th and watch the replay of the virtual discussion of The New Normal. Across the country, women are economically stressed, struggling with mental health, and concerned about the state of the country, yet they are also galvanized in support of improving healthcare systems, …

  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:   For first time in history, two women sat behind president at State of the Union Jordan Mendoza, USA Today For the first time in history, two …

After almost two years of contending with Covid-19, women across the country increasingly believe that the pandemic is creating a new normal.

  Spring is for celebrating national service! Over the next few weeks, America’s premier national service programs will commemorate their respective anniversaries. Peace Corps Week runs from February 27th to March 5th, while AmeriCorps Week will be from March 13th to 19th. A significant number of AmeriCorps members and Peace Corps volunteers experienced service disruptions …

  As we wrap up Black History Month and enter Women’s History Month, Gender on the Ballot would like to recognize some of today’s trailblazing Congresswomen in our final installment of our Black Herstory series. You can check out the first installment on Black women Suffragists here, and the second, on Black women in the …

  The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” In August 2020, the nation marked the amendment’s centennial. Ratification of the Nineteenth represented a milestone in the …

  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:   Not just the Supreme Court: Biden poised to triple number of Black women on federal appeals courts John Fritze, USA Today As President Joe Biden announces …

  We’re back with another edition of Black Herstory, following our first post on Black Suffragists. This time we are focusing on civil rights leaders. Check out some of the women behind the movement below. Septima Clark (1898 to 1987) Septima Clark, an educator and civil rights activist, was born on May 3, 1898, in …