Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week: A Flash Point for Women in Politics By Lisa Lerer, New York Times New polling gives us a unique look at how women are shaping the political …

  During and in the aftermath of the 1992 presidential election, pundits including Bill Clinton’s lead strategist, James Carville, generally agreed that the key issue in the race was, “the economy, stupid.”  A detailed analysis of the 1992 American National Election Study (ANES), however, showed that in the words of one prominent presidential elections scholar …

  When the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team (USWNT) won the World Cup in July, there were more than just cheers coming from the stand: the crowd chanted “equal pay!” — a reference to the lawsuit women players brought against the US Soccer Federation over gender discrimination. The members of the USWNT aren’t the first …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up: Debate edition. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week: Having Six Women Running for President Changes Everything By Rachel Thomas, Marie Claire When there is only one woman on the debate stage, she faces …

  Twenty of the Democratic candidates for President faced off this week in the second debate of the 2020 cycle, and the Internet had a lot to say. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite tweets here, enjoy! (And if you’re feeling nostalgic, June Tweets are here!) We weren’t the only ones excited to see …

  Last night, Senator Michael Bennet, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, Senator Cory Booker, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Kamala Harris, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Governor Jay Inslee, and Mayor Bill de Blasio took the stage for Night 2 of the July Democratic Primary Debates. …

  In round one, the ladies ruled the presidential primary debate. For the most part, they hit the stage ready to display their leadership qualities in a high-pressure situation with limited speaking time. Here’s a look at the winning strategies from the first debate and what to expect in round two. Take a Risk When …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’ll be collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories, and here’s what caught our eye this week: Americans Say They Would Vote For A Woman, But… By Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, FiveThirtyEight Although 94% of Americans would vote for a woman president, women candidates …

San Francisco Chronicle | Joe Garofoli Public opinion may be changing about what “electability” means, according to a poll that will be released next week by Gender on the Ballot, a partnership between the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and American University’s Women and Politics Institute. It found that 72 percent of the 488 likely Democratic …

  It’s a popular question on the presidential campaign trail to ask the male Democratic candidates about choosing a woman as their running mate. Joe Biden says it would be “great” to have a woman on the ticket as his vice president. Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke have both suggested that they are committed to …