The Political Power of Women

Women -- as voters, candidates, activists, donors, and journalists -- are flexing their political muscle like never before.

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Politics
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris Are Being Held Back by Sexist Voters, Exclusive Poll Finds
The Daily Beast - Sam Stein
Sexism is weighing down the women running for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos for The Daily …
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Kirsten Gillibrand
‘This Is My Space’: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Unabashedly Feminist Campaign
The New York Times - By LISA LERER and SHANE GOLDMACHER
The morning after the election of Donald J. Trump, Kirsten Gillibrand woke up and began crying. “Bawling,” she corrected herself. After spending the next two months “deeply depressed,” the junior senator
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Sexism In 2020: How We’re Repeating The Mistakes Of 2016
rantt.com - Tom Williams
From top left to bottom right: Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, Marianne Williamson (Official …
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Amy Klobuchar
You want to know who is electable?
The Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin
Four Senate women running for the Democratic nomination for president have confronted some of the same biases that Hillary Clinton faced — plus the “electability” canard that posits a female nominee would
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Politics
Women donors could again shatter records in 2020 elections
Roll Call - Kate Ackley
Female donors, who opened their wallets like never before in the 2018 midterm elections and helped propel an unprecedented number of women into …
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Pete Buttigieg
The Other Glass Ceiling: Kamala, Warren, and the Trouble with “Tough” Women
Vanity Fair - By Jennifer Palmieri
The media unintentionally perpetuates male candidates’ advantages because they look and sound like candidates who have won in the past. And—shocker—they’re usually men. Conventional wisdom among political
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Julian Castro
Women Have Most of Top Roles in Campaigns for Leading 2020 Democrats
The Wall Street Journal. - Joshua Jamerson
WSJ analysis of senior staff of best-polling Democratic candidates shows wide swings of race, gender among staffs The majority of senior aides and advisers on the top-tier Democratic presidential campaigns
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Democrats
“They Never Showed Up”: How Democrats Lost the Red-State Fight for Abortion Rights
Vanity Fair - By Amanda Litman
The recent fusillade of anti-abortion bills is the direct result of decades of Republican scheming—and Democratic neglect. “I can assure you that $100,000 in Alabama in 2018 would’ve gone so far,” says
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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris Offers Sweeping Plan To Dock Companies That Don't Pay Women Equally
HuffPost - Igor Bobic
The proposal would levy fines on businesses who don't prove that their pay practices are fair. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on Monday unveiled the second major proposal of her presidential campaign: comprehensive
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Nevada Senate
In Nevada’s legislature, women outnumber the men — a first in the nation. Carson City may never be the same.
The Washington Post - By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
CARSON CITY, Nev. — She didn’t plan to say it. Yvanna Cancela, a newly elected Democrat in the Nevada Senate, didn’t want to “sound crass.” But when a Republican colleague defended a century-old law requiring
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Poll: Women voters could give women candidates a boost in the Democratic primary
Vox - Li Zhou
There’s a historic number of women running for the Democratic presidential ticket this cycle, and while several are considered top-tier candidates, they still aren’t leading the polls just yet. One key
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5 Asian American Women In Congress On The Advice They Could've Used As Freshmen
Bustle - Clarissa-Jan Lim
There are 17 Asian American and Pacific Islander lawmakers serving in Congress today, according to Pew Research Center numbers. It's a record high, …
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Bill Clinton
Female presidential candidates have to overcome the sexism — of other women
The Washington Post - By Jay Newton-Small
There are already six women running for president in 2020, an unprecedented number, and two of them — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.) — routinely poll in the top five among the
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When You Have 3 Children and Hundreds of Thousands of Constituents
The New York Times
After a historic wave of women was elected in November, voters have made it clear that they want political representatives whose families and life experiences reflect their own.
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Women's News
The Next President Should Not Be a Man
The New York Times - By FARHAD MANJOO
According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as unelectable.
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Paid Leave
Sexism Is Keeping An Important Progressive Policy Off The Front Page
HuffPost - Emily Peck
Finally, the U.S. has a real shot at passing paid family leave, but pie-in-the sky ideas are taking up all the oxygen. The U.S. is creeping closer to an actual paid family leave law, perhaps finally catching
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Women's News
If male candidates want to show they get it, they should get out
The Washington Post - By Suzanna Danuta Walters
In 2013, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg urged women to “lean in” to their power and break through that pesky glass ceiling. Predictably — and correctly — feminists argued that “leaning
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U.S. Politics
Asked if a Woman Can Win, 2020 Candidates Offer an Easy Answer: ‘I Have’
The New York Times - By ASTEAD W. HERNDON and LISA LERER
CRESTON, Iowa — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York had a request: Before anyone mocked her claim that she was the Democratic presidential candidate best positioned to take on President Trump, at least
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Six Women Running for President - Where's the Media?
thesyndromemag.com
For the first time in herstory there are 6 women running for President, and at least one more may soon join them. You’d think the media would be …
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Black Women Are Taking Their Political Power To The Podcast World
The Root - Terrell Jermaine Starr
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Why there will be a woman on the 2020 Democratic ticket
brookings.edu - Elaine Kamarck
By Elaine KamarckSo far 19 Democrats have announced, in one way or another, that they are running for the Democratic nomination for president. This …
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Prominent Activists Launch Supermajority To Mobilize Women For 2020 And Beyond
HuffPost - Emma Gray
Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo and Alicia Garza are creating an intersectional political organization dedicated to building tangible power for American women. Alicia Garza, Ai-jen Poo and Cecile Richards
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Nominate a woman? Some Democratic women aren't so sure
Associated Press - By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, JULIE PACE and HUNTER WOODALL, Associated Press
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year's midterms. Women won two of the state's most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor
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New Census Data Reinforces Urgency of House GOP's Female Recruitment Push
cookpolitical.com - David Wasserman
It turns out the "blue wave" of 2018 was just as much about subtraction as addition: President Trump's best demographic, men without college degrees, …
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Prominent women of color are putting 2020 candidates on the spot. Warren and Harris shined.
Vox - Li Zhou
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris received standing ovations from the audience at a forum on Wednesday dedicated to women of color — clearly emerging as favored candidates among some in an increasingly
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Women on the 2020 campaign trail are being treated more negatively by the media
storybench.org - Alex Frandsen is a fourth-year journalism major and sociology minor. His primary interests include politics, pop culture, and social issues, and he is big into using data to explore them all. Aleszu Bajak is Storybench’s editor. He is also graduate programs manager at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, where he teaches courses and runs research on digital journalism, data reporting and new media. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.
Female candidates running for president are consistently being described in the media more negatively than their male counterparts. That’s what we’ve …
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Women of Substance
newrepublic.com - Liza Mundy
2020's slate of female presidential candidates is already making history. On a bright Saturday morning in early March, the annual Texas schmoozefest …
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In the Democratic Primary, It’s Women Who Win Elections Against Men Who Lose Races
observer.com - John A. Tures
There is no shortage of Democratic candidates for president in 2020, but not all of them have a good track record of elections. In fact, it’s coming …