Pink Politics Author Kathy Groob is speaking to the Coshocton Ohio Business & Professional Women’s Equal Pay Day Dinner about the connection between equal pay issues and women in politics.
Click here to read the article in the Coshocton Tribune.
Nowhere Near Equal
Kathy Groob: Women don’t get elected for simple reason – they just don’t run
“Gender gap in political ambition is virtually the same as it was a decade ago.”
– Lawless & Fox, 2012
By Kathy Groob, KyForward contributor - It’s not just Kentucky. With just 17% of the members of Congress representing the female gender, the United States has a systemic problem—there aren’t enough women serving in elected office. More than 50 countries rank higher than the United States in women’s elected representation; we come in at 91st place. In Kentucky where women represent 53 percent of the voting population, women are just 18 percent of the members of the General Assembly.
Universities, organizations and individual foundations such as The Barbara Lee Family Foundation have spent thousands of dollars and beaucoup hours studying the reasons why the United States just can’t seem to make significant progress with getting women to run for office.
Associate Professor of Government at American University, Jennifer Lawless and her partner, Richard Fox of Loyola Marymount University have published a new report that concludes “when women run for office, regardless of the position they seek, they are just as likely as their male counterparts to win their races.”
So what’s the problem?
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Pink Politics Featured on KY Forward
KY Forward featured Pink Politics in its Government section on January 9, 2012. Click here to read the story. www.kyforward.com
Cincinnati Business Courier: Despite appearances, fewer women being elected
Cincinnati Business Courier, November 11, 2011 “But nationwide, the number of women holding elected office is actually declining, says Kathy Groob, publisher of Covington-based ElectWomen magazine. “Groob argues it’s important to reverse that trend and elect more women to local, state, and federal public office. ‘It’s not just about equality, which it is. It’s about effectiveness,’ said Groob, whose new book ‘Pink Politics: The Woman’s Practical Guide To Winning Elections’, offers advice for women who want to run. ‘Data show women are more effective.They’re more focused on the end task rather than the partisan bickering.’”
Cincinnati Books Examiner says “Pink Politics is essential playbook for female candidates”
PINK POLITICS is essential playbook for female candidates Cincinnati Books Examiner Vicki Prichard, Cincinnati Books Examiner October 21, 2011 Kathy Groob wants to see more women in elective office — nationally, and certainly in her home state, Kentucky, which ranks 41st in the U.S. for women in elective office — and she’s doing her part to make that happen. In 2009, Groob founded ElectWomen Magazine, a women’s political blog/website dedicated to electing women to public office. This month she amps up her effort to see more women run for elective office — and win — with her new book,PINK POLITICS — The Woman’s Practical Guide to Winning Elections. PINK POLITICS gets to the marrow of running a campaign with an in-the-trenches account of running for political office drawn from Groobs own experiences as well as those of the women candidates, elected officials and political experts she interviewed for the book. It provides the kind of resources that Groob says she wished she had when she first ran for office, delivering wise and practical counsel to women who are either considering a bid for office or have already kicked off their candidacy. Read the full article here
