Posts Tagged ‘elect women’
Women Leaders Launch National Campaign To Double Number of Women in Politics
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – Political Parity, a nonpartisan initiative of 51 women leaders, held a briefing and roundtable announcing a new national campaign to double the number of women in the U.S. House and Senate and among Governors. Leading the initiative are former US Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt and former Lt.…
Read MoreAmerican Politics: Where are all the Women?
By Rebecca Thomas – Politics, in every country, has historically been a man’s game. Although the representation of women in political office has increased worldwide since World War II, it is still far from the 50-50 representation that perhaps we might expect to see in an egalitarian society. Women are, of course, under-represented in all…
Read MoreSILENCED AGAIN: Missouri Women Not Allowed to Speak During Birth Control Debate
MO Representatives speak up after being ignored in the House. Edited from the article from JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOX) – Seven female representatives voiced outrage at being ignored for over 2 hours by Republican House leadership during a House floor discussion on a resolution to President Barack Obama’s contraception mandate. The House debated a resolution (HCR41) Wednesday that…
Read MoreFirst Responder Wanda Hammons Enters Race for Kentucky State Representative
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – With politics in her blood, Grant County native Wanda Crupper Hammons has filed to run for an open seat in the Kentucky State House of Representatives. For the past 20 years, the 61st House seat was held by Wanda’s friend, Royce Adams and prior to that, the seat…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren’s Race for Senate Tightens Up
Democrat Elizabeth Warren is neck and neck with Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, according to a new poll released Tuesday. The poll, conducted by Massachusetts think tank MassINC for the Boston NPR station WBUR, finds that 46 percent of likely voters in the state said they would vote for Warren, while…
Read MoreCarolyn Maloney, Eleanor Holmes Norton walk out of contraception hearing
POLITICO – Two female Democratic lawmakers walked out of a House hearing on the Obama administration’s contraception compromise Thursday morning to protest the fact that only male witnesses were testifying. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) left the hearing when House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) refused to…
Read More2013 Campaign Preview: New York City Speaker Christine Quinn Offers Agenda for City
The New York Times – Christine C. Quinn, simultaneously offering an agenda for the City Council and a preview of her mayoral campaign, proposed on Thursday to crack down on landlords whose buildings are deteriorating, to make kindergarten mandatory and to provide more job training for unemployed New Yorkers. Ms. Quinn, the Council speaker, touched in her annual State…
Read MoreIGNITE Seeks to Light a Flame for Future Women in Politics
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – While working to promote women candidates at EMILY’s List and Emerge America, Anne Moses believed there was a missing link to advancing the numbers for women in politics. “Someone needed to be reaching young women in high school and in college to build political ambition,” says Anne Moses,…
Read MoreUse Facebook to urge Facebook to put women on its board of directors
By Moira Forbes, ForbesWoman – The world’s most highly anticipated IPO is also calling attention to a problem that continues to plague corporate America: the lack of women on boards. Scheduled to go public in May, Facebook was founded on innovation and disruptive thinking – but the company has yet to appoint one woman to its seven-person board…
Read MoreThe last World War I veteran dies at 110. A woman!
New York Times – The last veteran of World War I was a waitress, and for 90 years no one knew her name. Florence Green, a member of Britain’s Royal Air Force who was afraid of flying, died in England on Saturday, two weeks shy of her 111th birthday. She was believed to have been the…
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