Opinion: Female Candidates—and Voters—Benefit from Rural Candidate Information Project

This article by Cindy Elmore, published in Cardinal & Pine, cites RepresentWomen's 2023 Gender Parity Index.

The Fall 2023 municipal election was a pretty good one for women candidates in my county, which is significant in a state given a grade of “D” on the 2023 Gender Parity Index. The index, which is compiled annually by RepresentWomen, measures the share of women holding elective office at all levels.

While we didn’t set out to help only female candidates to win, such free, nonpartisan candidate information projects like the one my colleague, Brian Massey, and I launched in Pitt County probably helped them. Female candidates were more likely than their male counterparts to participate in our request for information about them for our website. And women candidates who participated were much more likely to win.

Read the complete article here.