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Basic Training--Across the Country
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The
Women's Campaign School at Yale is launching WCSYale: the Basics, a new one-day non-partisan campaign training "for women who have newly discovered a passion for politics and need to learn the critical next steps to make the decision to run and launch their political careers." In partnership with the
United State of Women and the
Democracy Fund, they are kicking off the program in Washington, DC on Saturday, October 14. Get the details and
register here.
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But Wait, There's More Basic Training!
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#RunAsYouAre National Training is a three-day program November 17-19 in Minneapolis. Sponsored by
VoteRunLead
, it's designed to help women become powerful leaders in local and state office. There are specialized sessions for rural women leaders, office-specific content, and regional groupings to sustain participants after the training. Find out more
here.
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Womanpower, Right on Your Wrist
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TheCOMPASSProject and CAWP have joined forces to strengthen CAWP's campaign training program,
Ready to Run®, and expand it to all 50 states. To fund this effort, TheCOMPASSProject designed a special collection of hand-crafted True North bracelets. Wear one as a symbol of your support for electing more women. Give them as gifts to family and friends. They look great on everyone who supports political equality.
Order yours here!
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Which state has the highest proportion of women in its state legislature? Right now it's Arizona, with 40%. (Bottom of the heap? It's Wyoming, with 11.1%.) Read the Arizona specifics from
AZcentral.com, including fact-checking by CAWP. And find out where your state ranks on CAWP's
Women in State Legislatures 2017 Fact Sheet.
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Women's voices change the agenda! Help us point more women toward political participation--- m
ake a contribution to CAWP today!
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Who's Family-Friendly?
The Mercury News says that the California legislature is getting more family-friendly, in part because more members have school-age children and, in the words of one woman lawmaker, "You have these guys who are like 'Wait a minute, this is an issue,' because they're seeing it up close." Not yet up to speed, according to Senator Tammy Duckworth on
Cosmopolitan.com, are the nation's airports, which need to provide appropriate space for breast-feeding moms. Meanwhile,
Detroit Metro Times tells us one Michigan state legislator found, when she brought her two-year-old to a meeting, that some constituents hadn't yet gotten the memo about being family friendly.
Where are the Women?
Not in appointed positions in the current administration, we learn from
The Guardian. They tell us that President Trump has chosen men for 80% of nominations so far, making for the "most male-dominated government in decades."
Candidates, Present, Future and Absent
Two women in the U.S. House of Representatives have their eyes on U.S. Senate seats. Rep. Marcia Blackburn (R-TN) is looking at the seat being vacated by Sen. Bob Corker, per
The Hill, while Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has joined Democrats challenging Sen. Jeff Flake, as reported by
azcentral.com. In Boston, women of color have already started to reshape local politics, says
WGBH.org. Looking ahead,
The New York Times finds Democrats encouraging women to run for state attorney general posts, where women remain scarce. (Look up the numbers on CAWP's fact sheet,
Women in Statewide Elective Executive Office 2017.) But
ABC News says that Republican women are not rushing to run in the way that Democratic women have in the wake of the 2016 election, citing as one reason a paucity of support systems for Republican women candidates.
They're Already Leaders
Thoughts on two women currently in top leadership roles: Angela Merkel (from
Refinery 29) and Nancy Pelosi (from
The New York Times). And a conversation with State Rep. Attica Scott, the first Black woman elected to the Kentucky House in almost two decades, who tells
Governing
she's tired of being labeled an "angry Black woman."
Who Decides How Women Vote?
The Guardian fills us in on research by Oregon State University's Prof. Kelsy Kretschmer confirming a theory espoused by Hillary Clinton--that straight white women are apt to take guidance from their fathers, husbands, boyfriends or male employers about how to vote. "The key distinction, according to Kretschmer's research, is that single women tend to cast votes with the fate of all women in mind, while women married to men vote on behalf of their husbands and families (the study was based on a poll of straight women conducted in 2012, before same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, and draws no conclusions about marriages where neither partner is a man)."
No Comment
Sometimes the right comment is no comment at all, at least when it comes to sexist behavior. Examples:
The New York Times on the delicate feelings of men in Silicon Valley with regard to women there; a
report from CNN and a
follow-up opinion piece on a Republican congressman's description of his female colleagues as "eye candy"; news from
The Cut about how Senator Elizabeth Warren, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, is being treated in the media.
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