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A ranked-choice voting system is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots.
If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, he or she is declared the winner.
If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes cast for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the second-preference choices indicated on those ballots. A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won a majority of the adjusted votes. The process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: New Jersey state Rep. Sadaf Jaffer is leaving office due to the mental, emotional and sometimes physical trauma of serving in the public eye; Kalamazoo, Mich., has adopted a resolution to implement ranked-choice voting for mayoral and city commissioner elections; the findings of the 2023 Gender Parity Index; and more.
The 2023 Gender Parity Index is an annual report outlining the status of women’s representation in all 50 states. Which states ranked best in the nation? Which states ranked worst? And what reforms can the U.S. implement, to ensure we see political gender parity in our lifetimes? Here are some of our top takeaways.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Abortion remains a salient issue for primary voters; around the world, there is still a notable lack of women in leadership roles; Virginia’s state elections in November; “We need to stop sending women to a broken system,” says Melinda French Gates; Dutch finance minister stepping down to protect her family from threats against her; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer are impossible without actors and writers, and women are still getting paid less in the industry; Christopher Nolan’s film had the opportunity to mention critical women of the atomic age but failed; Emily’s List’s new Madam Mayor program will “serve as a critical touchpoint” for woman mayors to receive support; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Delaware’s General Assembly shows promising signs of change; ranked-choice voting bill introduced in Pennsylvania state legislature; The National Mall has yet to dedicate an independent monument to women, despite recent legislation that was passed to create one; countries with greater peace, reduced military expenditures, and a heightened focus on environmental concerns correlate with more gender diversity in legislatures; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: America has far more than just one set of founders; the architects of American democracy were inspired by the system of checks and balances practiced by Indigenous peoples; why the number of women candidates filing to run for office is lower than in recent years; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Ranked-choice voting helps reassure voters they can vote for the candidate they want rather than who they think will win; the Supreme Court has two cases on its docket that will determine the future of affirmative action; Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) could become the third Black woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate; and more.
Even now, 158 years after the first Juneteenth, our elected leaders remain overwhelmingly white and male. Even as white women saw marginal gains in political representation, progress for Black women has been infuriatingly slow. Black women candidates for elected office must fight bias on multiple fronts—not just at the ballot box, but all along the way to get there. And party leadership often wants to throw their money behind a less politically “risky” candidate, further entrenching the state of affairs.
We know how crucial representation is to building a new generation of leaders. As intersectional feminists, we have a responsibility to dismantle the barriers to a truly representative democracy.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Kasandra Gandara may be the first woman mayor of Las Cruces, N.M.; Nancy Mace, a Republican House member from South Carolina, criticizes her party for their resistance to gun control and abortion access; at the current rate of progress, it will take 140 years to reach gender balance in the global financial sector; and more.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Women are now represented in every parliament in the world, but progress toward gender balance in governments has slowed globally; New Zealand has its first gender-balanced cabinet; competing court orders on mifepristone likely mean the issue will rise to the Supreme Court; more women than ever before are motivated to run for political office; and more.