52 years after Shirley Chisolm was the first Black woman ever elected to Congress, we now have the highest number of Black Congresswomen in history. The same year that Kamala Harris, a Black and South Asian woman, was elected as the first woman Vice President, a record number of Black women were elected to 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: Many of Biden’s nominees of color run into turbulence in the Senate Annie Linskey, The Washington Post Activists have raised concerns that many of President Biden’s Cabinet nominees …

Parenting young children has always been difficult and expensive, but the pandemic has made it even harder – and mothers are bearing the brunt. First, the country’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has resulted in millions of lost jobs. More than 52 million Americans who live in households with children experienced a loss …

Read the memo here and the Appendix here. With more women than ever in elected office, more women are likely to face sexism on the campaign trail. Sexism in politics can take many forms, from double standards for women candidates, to undue criticisms of their appearance, voice, or clothing. The decisions of whether and how to …

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: Record number of women hold state legislative leadership posts Jared Gans and Jonnette Oakes, The Hill According to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a …

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 …

Read the memo here and the Appendix here. With more women than ever in elected office, more women are likely to face sexism on the campaign trail. Sexism in politics can take many forms, from double standards for women candidates, to undue criticisms of their appearance, voice, or clothing. The decisions of whether and how to …

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: HUD to pursue gender identity-based discrimination complaints, reversing Trump policy Katy O’Donnell, Politico The Department of Housing and Urban Development is announcing a new policy to investigate housing …

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 …