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Pros 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 Foreign Relations. She blogs at “Democracy in Development.” Pros and cons of requiring national parliaments to include a minimum number of women Quotas…
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 from running for Congress. A self-described “work horse, not a show horse,” Olivia Freeman believes her second shot at a congressional seat, and…
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 event featutres Debbie Walsh, Center for American Women in Politics – Rutgers University. Her keynote address is titled “Why Each Individual (Woman) Candidate…
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 – whose mission is to encourage, promote and support pro-choice women’s leadership in all political parties and levels of public office – congratulates Susan…
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 61 feature two women—Kari Dziedzic and Susan Allen. If elected, Susan Allen would become the first Native American woman to ever serve in…
Read MoreChristine 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 candidate to surpass a key threshold: She has raised all the money she is allowed to spend in the primary under the city’s…
Read MoreBad news for women: Study Says Looks Matter as TV Covers Congress
By Sam Roberts for The New York Times – Maybe looks aren’t everything, but new research suggests that more physically attractive members of Congress get more coverage on network television. Two Israeli professors concluded that members whom a student survey judged to be better looking appeared more frequently on television — but not radio or in…
Read MoreAnnouncing PINK POLITICS Book Tour & Speaking Events – New Dates Added
ElectWomen Magazine Publisher and Author Kathy Groob, will launch her PINK POLITICS book tour and speaking events beginning Saturday, January 7, 2012. In her new book PINK POLITICS – The Woman’s Practical Guide to Winning Elections, Groob tells of her own experiences as a candidate and offers women a realistic assessment of what it takes…
Read MoreCommitment to 2012 –women’s political organizations engage in massive recruitment efforts
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – Women’s political organizations across the nation are engaged in a massive effort to recruit, train and support women political candidates for races in 2012. With women holding just 17% of the seats in Congress, women’s groups are fired up to change the trend and the results. The Center…
Read MoreName It. Change It. The year in political media sexism.
By Name it. Change it. – Every year we like to evaluate the trends we’ve seen in political media coverage of women politicians and candidates. Sadly, in the year 2011 we found no limit to how demeaning or insulting some media outlets and personalities felt they needed to be towards women. No one says media…
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