Posts by Kathy Groob

A series of protect women’s health events throughout Ohio will be held in May in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio. The event in Columbus is sold out. Planned Parenthood President and CEO, Cecile Richards is the featured speaker and she will provide an update on the state of women’s health at three luncheon events to…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (WOMENSENEWS)–On the sidelines of all the primary campaigns going on right now we also have a less-visible but important nationwide effort focused on gender equality in political office. It is aimed at women who have not considered running for political office as well as those who have been thinking about it and…

Camp Congress for Girls KY program offering 50% discount; parents enter the code SPONSORSHIP when registering and the fee will be reduced. Camp Congress for Girls Lexington 2014 is a leadership program that introduces girls ages 7 to 17 to politics. Camp begins with a girl-friendly lesson on the structure of our political system. Each…

By Anna Brand, MSNBC – Alison Lundergan Grimes may be Kentucky’s best known Democratic woman running for office this year. But she is hardly alone: 31 progressive women candidates, hand-picked and trained by Emerge Kentucky, have filed for elective office in the Bluegrass State this year. The Democratic Party is banking on their success. For the…

The Leonard Lopate Show – Cecile Richards talks about her mother, Ann Richards, and the new HBO film “All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State.” The documentary chronicles Richards’ life—from growing up poor in rural Texas to her life as a sociable suburban housewife and mother of four to entering politics and becoming one…

By Sally Friedman Correspondent, Burlington County Times (New Jersey) The prophets of doom have been insisting that America’s youth are so caught up in their tech toys that they have no interest in the important issues of the day, know little about our political system, and care even less. Those doomsayers should have been at…

New book defines the science and art of self-assurance. “Confidence. We know it when we see it or think we do. And we want it for ourselves. The authors of the New York Times bestseller Womenomics deconstruct this essential, elusive, and misunderstood quality and offer a blueprint to bring more of it into our lives.”…

Pew ResearchCenter – Today marks “Equal Pay Day,” the date that symbolizes how far into the new year the average American woman would have to work to earn what the average American man did in the previous year. With a new executive order issued today, President Obama and Democrats are hoping to peg the gender wage…

Today is Election Day!  Don’t know where to vote?  Check out My Vote Wisconsin. Fourteen Emerge Wisconsin alumna are on the ballot today in Wisconsin. Emerge Wisconsin is changing the face of Wisconsin politics by identifying, training and encouraging women to run for office, get elected and to seek higher office. Our intensive, cohort-based seven-month training…