Record number of women win primaries
Only 167 women were able to reach this milestone in 2016, according to the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.
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Only 167 women were able to reach this milestone in 2016, according to the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.
Read MoreRepresentation for women in political office has long been lacking. Per the Center for American Women and Politics, women presently occupy 25% of the U.S. Senate’s 100 seats, and roughly 29% of seats in the U.S. House.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the Rutgers Eagleton Institute for Politics hosted a webinar panel titled "The Morning After: A post-election analysis of the New Jersey General Election", featuring several New Jersey-based journalists and strategists from both political parties.
Read MoreAlthough the candidates only represent 26% of the total names on the ballot, the number is a significant increase compared to previous years. Almost three times more than in 2014, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics.
Read MoreJean Sinzdak is the associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Ahead of last week’s legislative elections, the center was bracing for a loss of female representation, so the election results weren’t a huge surprise, she said.
Read MoreWomen donors made up just 29% - 33% of the contributions to general election candidates at statewide and state legislative levels in Florida between 2019 and 2022. That's according to a new report on the "donor" from Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics using data from OpenSecrets.
Read MoreA spokesperson for Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics told Axios that their researchers aren't aware of any other cities as large as St. Paul hitting this milestone.
Read MoreParticularly in Pennsylvania, “women really have to prove themselves in some different ways,” said Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for Women and Politics
Read MoreAccording to a recent report from the Center for American Women and Politics, white men are “by far the most overrepresented group in New Jersey’s political offices.”
Read MoreCurrently, eight Black women serve as mayors in the top 100 most populous cities in the U.S., according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
Read MoreAccording to researchers at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, Ellen Walker Craig-Jones of Urbancrest, Ohio, was the first Black woman elected by a popular vote to lead an American municipality in 1971.
Read MoreAshley Koning, director of Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, said Durr’s victory two years ago “may have come from some sort of Trump, Sweeney, and Murphy combined backlash.”
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