LIVE 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…
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…
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…
Read MoreIowa 50/50 in 2020 Holding First Annual Blueprint For Winning Academy
50-50 in 2020 is a bipartisan initiative to achieve political equity in Iowa, founded by former Democrat Senator Jean Lloyd-Jones and former Republican Senator Maggie Tinsman. The Blueprint for Winning Academy kickoff…
Read MoreWomen Winning Does It Again. Susan Allen & Kari Dziedzic Sweep in Minneapolis Special Elections
With the election of Kari Dziedzic and Susan Allen to the legislature, Women Winning is five for five in legislative special elections Saint Paul, Minn. – January 10, 2012 – Women Winning –…
Read MoreElection Officers who Block the Vote
By Robert M. Brandon – Many news stories have focused on efforts of new Republican majorities in state legislatures around the country to pass laws viewed as suppressing the vote of traditional Democratic…
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Pink Politics Featured on KY Forward
KY Forward featured Pink Politics in its Government section on January 9, 2012. Click here to read the story. www.kyforward.com
Read MoreForget New Hampshire. The Women Action on Tuesday is in Minnesota.
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine –Tuesday, January 10th voters will go to the polls for two special elections in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Open seats in Minneapolis Senate District 59 and House District…
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Christine Quinn’s Coffers Reach Goal for New York Mayoral Primary
By Kate Taylor for The New York Times – Twenty-two months before New York City chooses its next mayor, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and a Democrat, has become the first…
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