Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender and politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   State of the Union? Congress doesn’t fully reflect diversity Lisa Mascaro, AP The House Republican majority has increasingly added Black, Latino, and women elected officials to …

  Is abortion still a voting issue? During last year’s midterms, there was a lot of focus on whether abortion would be a driver of Democratic turnout, particularly for Democratic women. Despite many surveys where few voters cited abortion as the most important issue in America, women’s reproductive healthcare access proved to be influential in …

  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:   How recent tech layoffs can disproportionately affect women and people of color Jared Lindzon, Fast Company The tech industry has laid off tens of thousands of …

  From the new records set by women politicians for gubernatorial and congressional seats to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, 2022 has been a massive year for women in politics! Below are GOTB’s top 12 moments for women in politics in 2022.   1. Year Three of COVID impacting women disproportionally. 2022 marked two …

  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:   Why The Fight For Today’s Women Leaders Is Balance, Not Access Marissa Geist, Forbes Women have fought for decades to have a seat at the table …

  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: For the first time, women will hold these four key congressional jobs Michele L. Swers, Washington Post For the first time, the chairs and ranking members of …

  Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that she is stepping aside from her leadership role. “Never did I think I’d go from homemaker to House Speaker,” she said in an address on the House floor. She will serve her next term in Congress as a rank-and-file member. Here at GOTB, we are …

  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:   The U.S. has never had a lesbian governor. These two women could change that. Matt Lavietes, MSNBC If gubernatorial candidates Maura Healey and Tina Kotek win …

  NBC Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali’s new book, Electable, explores gender dynamics for women candidates in the 2020 Presidential Election, and asks what it will take to finally put a woman in the White House. In this post, Vitali virtually sits down with the Barbara Lee Family Foundation’s Executive Director Amanda Hunter for a …

  The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is in the news lately because three more states have ratified the amendment in recent years: Nevada (2017); Illinois (2018); and Virginia (2020). These state ratifications have presumably given the amendment the necessary thirty-eight state approvals needed for ratification. But questions over the continued viability of the congressional deadline …