In the News
November 16, 2024
This article published by The Huffington Post cites RepresentWomen's Cynthia Richie Terrell when covering women and the presidency. Read an excerpt below.
“Whenever a man loses one of these elections, we don’t go back and say, ‘98% of the people who have lost presidential races are white men,’” Mackler said.
Cynthia Richie Terrell, the founder and executive director of RepresentWomen, an organization focused on promoting gender-balanced representation at every level of government, echoed Mackler, suggesting it would be a mistake to “draw the conclusion that women aren’t going to be supported by voters” after the defeats of just two female presidential candidates.
Richie Terrell cited the success women have seen on the local level, including in state legislatures where women are poised to become the majority of legislators of Democratic caucuses.
“There is a hunger for women’s leadership. And I think there’s a hunger for the kinds of policy decisions that are associated with women candidates and women elected officials,” Richie Terrell added.
Read the complete HuffPost article here.
