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Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: an interview with Zoraya Hightower, the first woman of color on the Burlington, Vt., City Council; new Biden Cabinet nominees confirmed; why state legislatures are still largely white and male; progress toward diversifying all-male boards; and will Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) become the third Black woman in the Senate?
On the cusp of Women’s History Month and to round out Black History Month, we share portraits of some of the innumerable Black women who have worked hard for the rights we now hold dear, who have shared their artistic talents, and who have helped to nurture this experiment in democracy that is still a work in progress.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: steps you can take to dismantle the patriarchy; how voters perceive sexism in politics; Japan has the largest gender gap among advanced economies; a record number of women hold state legislative leadership roles; updates on Biden’s Gender Policy Council; “WOMEN WILL BE REAL EQUALS IN 2023,” wrote Alice Paul in 1923; and more.
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: the value of women leaders; Ngozo Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman and first African national to lead the World Trade Organization; Zimbabwe, Switzerland and The Netherlands’ progress toward gender parity; Boston’s nearly 200-year streak of white, male mayors is officially over; what to watch; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: remembering Claudette Colvin and the delegitimization of Black activism; saluting Black women leaders; barriers that keep women from running for office; ranked-choice voting picks up steam; women leaders better at meeting needs of constituents; women workers are still underpaid; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: despite the record number of leadership positions for women in the new administration, we’re still far from parity; Kamala Harris as “partner-in-chief”; strategies to create more open seats where women can run and WIN; Estonia is the first nation to have two elected women as head of state and head of government; Egypt’s gender quota is working to elect women, and Somalia is eyeing the same; suggested reading and podcasts; and more!
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: American democracy has finally passed the Bechdel test; women stole the inauguration show; more women will serve as White House correspondents; women on Biden’s Cabinet; progress toward women’s equality in Tunisia has stagnated; and more.
Despite the long history of women running for the executive office, both as presidential and vice presidential nominees, Kamala Harris is the first to achieve the goal in the 172 years since the first woman ran.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Biden’s new Cabinet will be majority people of color and gender-balanced; the dysfunction in our politics is caused by our antiquated voting system; the impact of the ranked-choice voting on Lisa Murkowski’s political future; the failure of our democratic institutions and the solutions to be found in electoral reform; the U.K. and Malta get closer to gender parity in Parliament; addressing women’s inequality in Russia; women’s representation in the entertainment sector; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Events this week are a stunning reminder that we must build institutions that represent the people they serve; breaking down feminist democratic representation; the role newly-elected Republican women may play in the 117th Congress; the amount of money raised and spent on individual women candidates; and this week’s must-reads.
