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New York Times – SAN FRANCISCO — There is the businesswoman, wearing a suit and glasses and holding a briefcase. There is the mother, smiling as she pours milk into her children’s cereal bowls at the breakfast table. There is the multitasker, holding a laptop in one hand and a baby in the other. These…

When Senator Barbara Mikulski first came to the Senate in 1987, it was a pretty lonely place for women. There was only one other female senator, and there wasn’t even a women’s bathroom near the Senate chamber. Now, just two decades later, there are a record 20 women senators and last year, for the first…

By Emily Cahn for Roll Call – Women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke will not run for Congress in California’s open 33rd District, instead opting to run for a seat in the state Senate, according to a local report. Fluke’s decision to run for lower office comes just one day after news broke that she had filed…

Emerge Kentucky, a non-profit organization established in 2009 to recruit and train Democratic women to run for public office, today announced that twenty-nine women from Emerge Kentucky have filed for elected office this year.  The twenty-nine women, listed below, include the first Emerge Kentucky graduate to run for federal office, Elisabeth Jensen who is running…

ElectWomen.com founder and Pink Politics author Kathy Groob, will discuss the political gains women have made at the February 8, 2014 Women’s Network program and luncheon in Newport, Kentucky.  Reservations are required: [email protected].

New York Times – PERRY, Ga. — As a little girl, Michelle Nunn clutched her father’s hand as they strolled the pecan groves of the family’s 2,400-acre farm, a moment captured in a black-and-white photograph that Sam Nunn used to help win election to the Senate. It hangs in a Sam Nunn exhibit in this…

By Caitlin Gibson and Ben Pershing, Washington Post – Democrats remained on course to take control of the Virginia Senate after winning a key special election Tuesday, as thousands of Northern Virginia voters braved snow and bitter winds to cast ballots in an unusual, three-way contest. In the race to fill the seat vacated by…

Washington Post – Janet Yellen was confirmed to lead the Federal Reserve on Jan. 6, 2014, making her the first female chair in the Fed’s history. So who is the woman who will be the new face of the central bank? The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen on Monday as the next leader of the Federal…