Feminist Wishes for 2022: “We Were Never Meant To Do This Work Alone”

This article, published in Ms. magazine, interviews several feminists and discusses what can be changed and improved in the upcoming year, including a quote from Cynthia. Read an excerpt below: 

‍“My wish for the coming year is that we turn our collective anxiety about the pandemic, threats to reproductive rights, environmental collapse and assaults on our democracy into transformative work to elect more women to help solve these existential crises.

“We know that current strategies alone will not get us to gender balance in politics—in our lifetimes. And we also know that systems solutions to advance women’s representation including ranked choice voting, paid leave and gender balanced cabinets are viable, but we need massive collaboration and investment in these strategies to scale these reforms. So that’s my wish for 2022: investment in and collaboration around systems solutions to advance women’s representation and leadership.”

—Cynthia Richie Terrell, founder and director of RepresentWomen, which works to advance women’s representation and leadership in politics by identifying the structural barriers women candidates face and the data-driven solutions that address those barriers.

Read the full article here.