Posts by Kathy Groob
Why Don’t We Have More Women in Public Office? Look at Who’s Running the Campaigns
By Yashar Ali for Huffington Post – Every election season, I ask myself the same question: Why aren’t more women running for public office? Over the past ten years, I have been hopeful for the prospect and rise of women political candidates. While I never studied the numbers, I felt like we were heading in…
Read MoreIf there aren’t enough women running in California, we’re in trouble
By Kathy Groob, Publisher – Even in California, where 19 women serve in Congress and both United States Senators are women, there are fewer women running for office than in the past. Emerge California Executive Director Kimberly Ellis is working to recruit and train more women to run for public office. “Politics is considered a blood…
Read MoreGiffords Returns to Congress, No Word on Whether She Will Run in 2012
ABC News – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has made no decision about whether she’ll run for re-election to Congress, rumors and news reports to the contrary, her spokesman said this morning. “The congresswoman is focused on her recovery,” the spokesman said. “Nothing has changed.” Giffords, D-Ariz., returned to Congress Monday night for the first time since being shot in the…
Read MoreObama Administration: Health Insurers Must Cover Birth Control With No Copays
Huffington Post – Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores. The requirement is part of a broad expansion of coverage for women’s preventive care under President Barack Obama’s health…
Read MoreIs ABC Quickly Becoming the Network for Women?
ABC announced that Katie Couric would join the network to host a new talk show and conduct news features. Couric recently resigned from CBS Nightly News as the first female anchor of a major news network program. Couric joins other strong female journalists now working at ABC – Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and Christiane Amanpour.…
Read MoreCultivating Women Leaders for the Future
By Kathy Groob, Publisher – Future leaders were in abundance at this week’s Young Democrats of America convention this week in Louisville, Kentucky. I spoke for an hour to over 75 bright, energetic and engaged women who are seeking the path to success and leadership in their careers and political lives. These women get it.…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren for U.S. Senate?
As Familiar Face Contemplates Senate Run, Democrats Weigh Possibilities New York Times — Elizabeth Warren might still be weeks away from deciding whether she wants to run for the United States Senate. But with the news last week that Ms. Warren would be returning to Massachusetts, where she teaches law at Harvard, a sound-bite war about…
Read MoreIMF Chief Christine Lagarde Warns U.S. of Threat to World Economy
Huffington Post – The impact of a failure to raise the U.S. borrowing limit could extend beyond America’s borders and damage the global economy, the chief of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Christine Lagarde urged U.S. political leaders to show the same “political…
Read MoreNo longer a disadvantage to being a women candidate
Research shows 2010 was a turning point for women candidates By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine When Barbara Lee began her research to study the relationship between gender and campaigns for women governors, it was 1998 and there was clear data showing that female candidates held a distinct disadvantage. Not so now, says Barbara Lee,…
Read MoreNorway Killer’s Hatred of Women
Michelle Goldberg for The Daily Beast – Conservatives worried about the Islamization of Europe often blame feminism for weakening Western societies and opening them up to a Muslim demographic invasion. Mark Steyn’s bestselling America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It predicted the demise of “European races too self-absorbed to breed,” leading to the transformation of…
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