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Thinking about running for office? Know a woman who should?

  Do you have one of the following goals? Run for office Recruit women to run Change the face of leadership If so, you need the 20th Anniversary version of BLFF’s Keys to Elected Office: The Essential Guide for Women. To quote BLFF’s founder and President, Barbara Lee: As we celebrate our 20th anniversary and …

Media Round Up: Week of August 18th   

  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: A Flash Point for Women in Politics By Lisa Lerer, New York Times New polling gives us a unique look at how women are shaping the political …

Likeability v. Electability: Different Word, Same Sexism

  The influence of the #MeToo movement. The historic number of diverse women elected in 2018. The fact that multiple women have been on the last two presidential debate stages – and will be on the next one. All of these factors make the 2020 presidential race feel incredibly different from the 2016 one. But, …

‘Women Have To Show While Men Can Tell:’ When Women Run For President

WBZ NewsRadio | Laurie Kirby When you have multiple women on the debate stage, “What changes… is that women don’t have to be the sole representative of their gender,” Amanda Hunter, the Research and Communication Director at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, said. The Foundation is a partner of Gender on the Ballot, a nonpartisan …

How the “Me Too” Movement Is Affecting Campaigns in the 2020 Elections

  The “Me Too” movement was founded more than a decade ago by civil rights activist Tarana Burke, but it has more recently gained international attention as people around the world began using social media to share their experiences with sexual harassment. The reach of the “Me Too” movement extends into politics, with 51% of …

Watch out for Abortion….the sleeper issue of the 2020 election cycle

  During and in the aftermath of the 1992 presidential election, pundits including Bill Clinton’s lead strategist, James Carville, generally agreed that the key issue in the race was, “the economy, stupid.”  A detailed analysis of the 1992 American National Election Study (ANES), however, showed that in the words of one prominent presidential elections scholar …

Media Round Up: Week of August 11th  

  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: Women candidates are constantly asked about their electability. Here are 5 reasons that’s misguided. By Li Zhou, Vox The 2018 elections proved that when women run for …

Men Who Lost – and Then Won – Presidential Elections

  There’s been a lot of talk about electability and the Democratic presidential primary. Research shows that 8 in 10 voters reject the idea that the country isn’t ready to elect a female president, but there is still a strong connection between perceived electability and gender. As BLFF’s Amanda Hunter sums it up: “When people …

Equal Pay: From Soccer Stadiums to the Debate Stage

  When the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team (USWNT) won the World Cup in July, there were more than just cheers coming from the stand: the crowd chanted “equal pay!” — a reference to the lawsuit women players brought against the US Soccer Federation over gender discrimination. The members of the USWNT aren’t the first …

Media Round Up: Week of August 4th

  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: Gender Will Be An Issue For Men As Well As Women In 2020 By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, FiveThiryEight With six women running for president in the 2020 election, …

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