San Francisco Chronicle | Joe Garofoli Public opinion may be changing about what “electability” means, according to a poll that will be released next week by Gender on the Ballot, a partnership between the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and American University’s Women and Politics Institute. It found that 72 percent of the 488 likely Democratic …

  On July 19, 1848, over 300 (mostly) women gathered for the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention in the United States and the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement. On the anniversary of Seneca Falls, we’re celebrating women voters. Here are a few things you should know: Women turn out at higher …

  Earlier this year, Rebecca Traister wrote a piece called “Mom vs. Dad on the Road to 2020.” Comparing how men and women on the campaign trail were approaching parenthood, she explained: “The tight knot for women in politics (and perhaps in life) has been, will always be, this: Everything associated with motherhood has been …

  It’s a popular question on the presidential campaign trail to ask the male Democratic candidates about choosing a woman as their running mate. Joe Biden says it would be “great” to have a woman on the ticket as his vice president. Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke have both suggested that they are committed to …

  Education equity activist. Youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. Inspiration to girls across the globe. On Friday, Malala Yousafzai turned 22, and today we celebrate all she has accomplished and all she is committed to achieving. Here are some of our favorite words of wisdom from Malala to get you through the week: “I raise up …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’ll be collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories, and here’s what caught our eye this week: 2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times Fifty years ago, Shirley Chisholm was sworn in as the first Black woman in …