New Report: Gender Played a Role in 2016 Presidential Election

In a new report released today, by Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation that examines gender dynamics in the 2016 race in order to call attention to, and change, some of the stereotypes associated with the presidency. Hillary Clinton was criticized when she suggested that sexism and misogyny…

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Making History!

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – This is what it is all about. All the work, all the workshops, all the training and all the advocacy. A woman will be elected to the highest executive office in the land. Hillary Clinton is making history this week by becoming the first woman presidential nominee  for a…

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We have a woman!

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – It has been a long journey and a team effort. I feel proud and so emotional this morning relishing this historic moment. Most of all I want to say thank you to all the women who have sacrificed, worked, given money, and taken one for the team to make…

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The Case For Elizabeth Warren, Vice President

This might work.  Jason Linkins Editor, Eat the Press So, that happened. After months of cautiously straddling the line between the Democratic presidential candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has suddenly injected herself into the 2016 race in a big way, emerging as an antagonist to presumptive Republican nominee and white-supremacist land-lamprey Donald…

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What I wanted to say to Hillary Clinton

  By Kathy Groob, Consultant, Founder ElectWomen – In the final days before the Kentucky Primary Election, Hillary Clinton visited my hometown and I had the opportunity to see her and speak to her for the third time.  With only a moment to chat, I wanted my comments to be encouraging and meaningful.   I…

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What a Hillary Clinton Presidency Means for Women

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen Every time I hear a woman say we shouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman, I cringe.  I cringe because nobody is saying anything about the gender of the men candidates. The male presidential candidates do not endure double standards, sexist remarks or the higher standards in which…

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Hillary Clinton advice to women: Thick skin

By MAGGIE HABERMAN, POLITICO – Hillary Clinton told a packed auditorium of New York University students Thursday that the most important tip she could offer women in public life was a lesson she took from one of her role models, Eleanor Roosevelt: “Grow skin like a rhinoceros.” “When you look at the challenges of being…

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