Posts Tagged ‘elect women’
Take our daughters (and sons) to work day
Thursday, April 28th is the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day. Started in 1993 by Marie Wilson at the MS Foundation, the program initially was designed to expose girls to career options to open doors for their futures. During the nearly two decades of taking girls to the workplace, the voice for…
Read MoreCampaign Trail Hazards – How to Avoid Dog Bites
Killer Campaigning -Yah, this post has a funny title, but don’t be too quick to laugh if you’re planning on running as a candidate in a local election. After working on dozens of political campaigns and knocking on tens of thousands of doors, I’ve learned that mean dogs are one of the biggest hazards you…
Read MoreWomen Surpass Men In Advanced Degrees For First Time
Huffington Post — Census figures show women outnumber men for the first time when it comes to finishing college and holding advanced degrees. The findings released Tuesday come amid record shares of women in the workplace and a steady decline in stay-at-home mothers. Among adults 25 and older, 10.6 million in the U.S. who earned…
Read MoreA Setback for Pakistani Women
POLITICO – LAHORE, Pakistan — The amazing thing is that she stayed. For the past nine years, Mukhtar Mai has lived in the same village where she was allegedly dragged into a house, raped and pushed out naked, while 200 higher-caste tribesmen sat in approval nearby and her father was too frightened to save her. Mai…
Read MoreAbsent Voices – Women Under 40
By Kathy Groob – Women aged 40 and younger are nearly absent from elected office and their voices are needed to help shape policy and offer the perspective as working professionals, mothers, caretakers and community activists. WUFPAC (Women Under Forty Political Action Committee) was started in January 1999 by a group of young women, representing…
Read MoreGabrielle Giffords showing ‘more independence’
POLITICO- Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. But the report Sunday in The Arizona Republic adds the congresswoman herself is planning to “walk a mountain.” Giffords uses her left side and has begun making limited use of her right arm and leg, a common…
Read MoreWhy aren’t we having a conversation about Donald Trump’s hair?
By Kathy Groob – If Donald Trump was a woman looking to make a run for president of the United States, you can bet your dollar that pundits, media-types and average Joe’s would be talking about the hair. From pundits, bloggers and consultants, the female candidate’s appearance is ripe for conversation and comment and considered…
Read MoreIs Social Media’s Importance in Politics Overblown?
by Noah Rothman,Campaigns & Elections Magazine – A story published yesterday on Politico quoted a number of sources questioning whether the amount of time that campaigns and Capitol Hill staffers spend monitoring communications through social media is worth it. Keeping up with messages that arrive online via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms poses…
Read MoreEmerge Wisconsin Takes Bold Steps to Address 2012 Election
In direct response to the ongoing divisive overreach of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Republican rubber-stamp Legislature; Emerge Wisconsin has changed the dates of its 2012 training program in order to allow more women to run in 2012. “By moving up the program to 2011, this will allow Emerge graduates extra time to…
Read MoreWomen scarce on Sunday political shows
“If it’s Sunday, it’s more men wearing dark suits.” By Erika Lovely for Politico – So far, none of the five major Sunday morning television news shows has embraced that as a promotional slogan. But women’s advocates — armed with new data showing that the shows are a bastion of male power — say it would…
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