Weekend Reading

From the SAVE Act's disproportionate burden on women voters to the first all-women gubernatorial ticket in New York history, this week's edition captures both the threats to women's political participation and the breakthroughs proving that when women lead, democracy looks different.

RepresentWomen outlines its 2026 Democracy Solutions Summit and renewed commitment to expanding ranked choice voting and advancing women’s political representation nationwide.

On Ranked Choice Voting Day, RepresentWomen highlights research linking RCV to stronger voter participation, fair representation, and expanded leadership opportunities for women.

New research and election data from Minnesota and beyond show ranked choice voting increases women’s representation, voter engagement, and fair electoral outcomes.

This week’s Weekend Reading explores a central insight from RepresentWomen’s work: women can reach leadership in many ways, but without structures that.

As we begin 2026, RepresentWomen looks back at the research, stories, and moments that shaped women’s political representation in 2025, and what they reveal.

This week’s Weekend Reading looks at the introduction of the Ranked Choice Voting Act in Congress, Elieen Higgins' historic mayoral win in Miami, Florida, and.

This week’s Weekend Reading blends heartfelt reflections on community and gratitude with key updates on women’s representation: a new Fulcrum op-ed, global.

This week's Weekend Reading highlights Abigail Adams, Margaret Atwood, youth voting rights, insights on global governance, bipartisan bridge-building, and.

Highlights from this week’s Weekend Reading: insights from the Reykjavík Global Forum, new data on global confidence in women’s leadership, 2025 election.

Election Night 2025 made history as Abigail Spanberger became Virginia's first woman governor, Mikie Sherrill became New Jersey's first Democratic woman governor and first woman military veteran governor, and women made gains at every level from city halls to state legislatures. RepresentWomen also reflects on New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani's all-woman transition team, and the release of a groundbreaking biography of Jeannette Rankin.

As Halloween approaches, RepresentWomen reflects on the history of women's power — from the Salem witch trials to today's ballot box — ahead of a historic Election Week where women are poised to sweep governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey and make gains in city halls across the country.

On the 50th anniversary of Iceland's Women's Day Off strike, RepresentWomen reflects on how collective action and structural reform transformed a nation — and what the U.S. still has to learn from global parity leaders like Bolivia, Iceland, and Mexico.

From Lucy Stone's defiant 1855 Cincinnati speech to Helena Moreno's historic landslide victory as New Orleans' first Hispanic mayor, this week's roundup connects the long arc of women's fight for representation to today's most urgent democracy reforms.

From the Women’s March on Versailles to the Anita Hill hearings, from breaking a 1,400-year stained-glass ceiling with the appointment of Dame Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, to reflections on the legacy of Jane Goodall — this week’s Weekend Reading traces how women’s footsteps have always carried us forward.

RepresentWomen's team gathered in person this week, reflecting on thirty years since the landmark Beijing Conference on Women — and Hillary Clinton's urgent warning that progress is under threat — while celebrating Adelita Grijalva's landslide congressional win in Arizona and tracking historic opportunities for women in November's gubernatorial and mayoral races.

As the United Nations opens its 80th General Assembly with Annalena Baerbock becoming the first woman from Western Europe to preside over the session, RepresentWomen reflects on troubling new data showing declining support for women's leadership in the U.S. and Germany.

On the anniversary of September 11th, RepresentWomen honors the women first responders whose heroism was nearly erased from history, and connects their legacy to today's urgent work of building a democracy where women's leadership is never sidelined.