Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: The Complicated Road to Electing a Woman President; Feminists Flee Twitter; RCV Preserved in Alaska by Slim Majority

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: mass exodus from Twitter; the combination of inflexible hours and low pay creates significant challenges for women running for office; three-day intergenerational dialogue in Juba on women’s leadership and political participation; and more.

This Week in Women’s Representation: Record-Breaking Governors, Legislative Wins and a Global Call to Action for Gender Equality

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week’s Weekend Reading includes on-the-ground updates from the 2024 Reykjavik Global Forum; the progress of women in state legislatures, particularly in New Mexico and Minnesota; the record number of female governors in the U.S.; and the ongoing global fight for women’s representation.

Feminists Make Sense of 2024 Election Aftermath: ‘Will a Woman Ever Be President?’ ‘Our Work Continues’

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: The results of the 2024 general election have left us grappling with the status of women in the United States. So many wins across the nation must be celebrated, even if the race at the top of the ticket was not what so many of us expected. The time for organizing, protesting, advocating for systems reform, and analyzing the election, as well as so many other avenues for policy debate, can and will come soon.

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Complicated Origins of the Electoral College; With Women in Power, Women’s Lives Improve

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week’s Weekend Reading covers our 2024 Declaration of Sentiments, the need for bipartisan solutions in state government, ditching (or at least reforming) the electoral college, historic elections in Canada, declining women executives in the U.K., and the Indian Women’s Reservation Act.

Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester Could Make History as First Two Black Women to Serve Simultaneously in U.S. Senate

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: Indigenous People’s Day, the New York Equal Rights Amendment, fostering trust in a time of misinformation, Angela Alsobrooks’ and Lisa Blunt Rochester’s campaigns, calls for increased women’s representation in the Sri Lankan parliament, and more.

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Advice to Our Younger Selves on International Day of the Girl; Restlessness Until Freedom

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: The RepresentWomen staff shares advice with their younger selves, reflections on the meaning of girlhood, and their visions for a more gender-balanced world; today’s girls are tomorrow’s women leaders; honoring Fannie Lou Hamer’s legacy as a civil rights pioneer; and more.

While Women Take the Lead in Mexico’s Government, Here’s How Can We Elect More Women in the U.S.

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: Feminists from around the world meet in Athens, Greece, to talk women’s representation and gender gaps in the European Union; Mexico inaugurated its first woman president Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, her Cabinet is half women, and the Supreme Court and Congress are headed by women; Alabama is the only state without any legislators who are mothers of school-age children; MSNBC special titled “Black Women in America: The Road to 2024,” focused on the critical influence of Black women in American politics; and more.

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: It Will Take 137 Years to Lift All Women Out of Poverty; U.S. Women Still Waiting for Equal Protection Under Law

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: At current rates, it will take 137 years to lift all women and girls out of poverty; Fannie Lou Hamer’s legacy; women make up 53 percent of voters, yet their rights remain vulnerable without the Equal Rights Amendment; and more.

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: N.Y. Sen. Jessica Ramos Challenges Eric Adams for Mayor; Nikki Haley Says Trump, Vance ‘Need to Change the Way They Speak About Women’

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

In this week’s Weekend Reading, we’ll cover dedicated groups committed to election reform, organizations supporting women running for office at the local level, the latest 2024 elections information that women voters need, the Ranked-Choice Voting Act, and state Sen. Jessica Ramos’ campaign announcement.

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: New Ranked-Choice Voting Ballot Initiative in Colorado; the ‘Electability’ Debate for Women in Politics

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: a new ranked-choice voting ballot initiative in Colorado, the “electability” debate for women running for office, the Democratic Party is challenging long-held beliefs regarding the electability of women candidates, and more.