The calendar says its Equal Pay Day, but it feels more like the movie Groundhog Day when it comes to the gender pay gap and women’s economic security. Once again, it took the average woman close to fifteen months – from January 1, 2022, to March 14, 2023 — to earn as much as …

  From the new records set by women politicians for gubernatorial and congressional seats to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, 2022 has been a massive year for women in politics! Below are GOTB’s top 12 moments for women in politics in 2022.   1. Year Three of COVID impacting women disproportionally. 2022 marked two …

  Last November, when Kamala Harris broke a major barrier for women in politics by getting elected as the first woman and first woman of color Vice President of the United States, I wrote here for Gender on the Ballot that sexism and racism would rear its ugly head in some way against her in …

  Last month, Canadian voters returned to the polls only two years after their last election in 2019. Since Prime Minister Trudeau called the snap election in August, much of the media surrounding the election has focused on the Liberal Party’s drop in polling and the rise in COVID-19 cases across the country. However, more …

  When Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President in January 2021, people all over the world—including us— celebrated the historic moment. Although as Vice President Harris has shattered stereotypes and changed the face of politics, we also knew from our decades of research that she would be held to a different and higher …

At the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, we learned from our Rising to the Occasion research that one of the qualities voters factor into a woman candidate’s electability is her ability to handle a crisis. Our just-released research, Putting Sexism in Its Place on the Campaign Trail, adds another dimension to the question of electability: how …

Close your eyes and imagine someone presidential. Chances are, if you’re from the United States, you imagined an older, probably white, man. That makes sense; all but one of our presidents fit that description. While this may seem like a silly exercise to prove a not-so-fun fact, when it comes to electoral politics our image of …

Late last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez detailed her experience during the Capitol attack on January 6th via a live video on her Instagram account.  On a Monday night, before a streaming audience of more than 160,000 people (and with views now reaching over 5.6 million) Ocasio-Cortez describes her day in the Capitol complex as violent …

As one of my heroes, former Texas Governor Ann Richards of once pointed out, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, just backwards and in high heels. In her recent debate with Mike Pence, Kamala Harris reminded us that in 2020, women candidates – especially Black women – also have to do it with a …

The time immediately following a crisis creates a window of opportunity to reimagine what the next phase of life can look like. With COVID-19, this opportunity seems more pressing than ever as the pandemic has highlighted the inequalities that made the “old normal” not work for so many, particularly women. In every country, and especially …