Posts by Kathy Groob
Goodbye for now brave Gabby
The New York Times – WASHINGTON — The House bade a tearful farewell to Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona on Wednesday as she submitted her resignation and was praised by members of both parties as an inspiring symbol of courage in the aftermath of an assassination attempt against her last year. “We come to the floor today,…
Read MoreIn Wake of SC Primary, High-Tech Effort Launched to Encourage Women to Run for Office
(COLUMBIA, SC) – In the immediate wake of the state’s GOP presidential primary, the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics (the Institute), in conjunction with our partners Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina (BCBSSC) and IT-oLogy, is announcing an exciting and innovative plan geared at encouraging and educating women to run for elected office in…
Read MoreOklahoma’s Traci Barnes; Fired Up and Running for State House
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – With a campaign video that begins with the energetic tunes from the musical Oklahoma, Traci Barnes has thrown her hat into the right to run for Oklahoma’s House District 3. She’s kicked off her campaign with photos of supporters wearing Traci “big girl panties” t-shirts and social media…
Read MoreHow would a female presidential candidate fare if she had Newt’s fidelity problem?
By Kathy Groob, ElectWomen Magazine – Clearly the religious right doesn’t care about the sanctity of marriage as long as it’s between a man and a woman. When South Carolina Republicans voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich on Saturday, they proved that infidelity and divorce, even multiple times, isn’t enough to keep a candidate out of…
Read MoreRep. Gabrielle Giffords to Step Down from Congress
ABC News – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will step down from Congress this week, her staff said today, and not seek re-election when her current term expires this year. “I have more work to do on my recovery and so to do what is best for Arizona I will step down this week,” Giffords said in a video posted…
Read MoreWhy Women Still Won’t Run for Office
By Kathy Groob, Publisher of ElectWomen Magazine and Author of Pink Politics 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…
Read MoreKathy 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…
Read MoreLIVE CHAT TODAY: Your voice is needed; should women have separate news/blog sites in politics?
By Mallary Jean Tenore for Poynter – Three days after The Washington Post’s new “She the People” blog launched, it had generated enough traffic to climb to the No. 1 spot among the site’s blogs. The blog, which provides women with a forum for writing on politics, news and culture, is aimed at getting women to become…
Read MorePros and Cons of Quotas for Women in Politics
The Atlantic – Isobel Coleman – Isobel Coleman is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at Council on Foreign Relations. She blogs at “Democracy in Development.” Pros and cons of requiring national parliaments to include a minimum number of women Quotas…
Read MoreOlivia Freeman Faces Obstacles in Race for Congress. She’s Faced Them Before.
Ohio’s 10thth Congressional District has newly-drawn boundaries and is held currently by Republican Mike Turner. Olivia Freeman isn’t letting the long odds of a heated primary and a Republican incumbent stop her from running for Congress. A self-described “work horse, not a show horse,” Olivia Freeman believes her second shot at a congressional seat, and…
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