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The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) is urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to use the full extent of their executive power to reverse damage done to women’s rights by the Trump administration, and to strengthen and expand women’s rights.
Ms.’s Carrie Baker spoke with Representatives Speier, Lawrence and Frankel about their hopes for the Biden-Harris administration.
Intentionally and unintentionally, America put Vice President Harris on a well-deserved and hard-earned pedestal that’s higher than President Joe Biden’s. But heavy accolades come with high expectations that are rarely met in everyone’s eyes.
Kamala Harris is being set up to fall short of high expectations. Her inevitable mistakes will reinforce unrealistic standards for women of color.
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!
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden appointed Charlotte A. Burrows as chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—the civil rights agency that enforces federal anti-discrimination laws in the workplace.
We should be paying attention not only to the women on the ballot, but also to the women donors who can influence who makes it from the ballot to the governor’s mansion.
Like politics in general, U.S. presidential Cabinets have typically been dominated by white men.
But with Kamala Harris and 11 women nominees, seven of them women of color, President Joe Biden’s Cabinet will be, as he promised, “the single-most diverse … that’s ever existed.”
But does a diverse Cabinet matter for the U.S. public? Evidence points to yes.
The new women of Congress, many of them firsts from their racial or ethnic group to serve in their district—or, as in Rep. Sharice Davids’s case, the nation—undertook their roles beyond lawmaking.
(The following is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of “The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress,” by New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer.)
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.
On Thursday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) re-introduced her bill dissolving the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment with bipartisan support of more than 195 co-signers.
Soon Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will introduce an identical bill in the Senate.
Our historic new vice president sits poised to advance gender equality for all women.
