Weekend Reading

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.

RepresentWomen connects back-to-school season to women's democratic leadership — from Barbara Jordan to today's record wave of women gubernatorial candidates — while covering federal workforce cuts hitting Black women hardest, Debra Shigley's Georgia runoff, and digital violence in Italy.

On the 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we reflect on how far women's political representation still has to go while celebrating wins like Catelin Drey's stunning Iowa Senate upset and highlighting global stories of women's leadership. This week's roundup connects Women's Equality Day and Labor Day to the ongoing fight for policy changes that empower women.

This week's edition examines how ranked choice voting leveled the playing field in New York City's mayoral race, while covering the growing wave of women gubernatorial candidates in 2026 and rising safety concerns for women in office following the assassination of Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman.

This week marks two interesting milestones including the founding of the National Association of Colored Women by Mary Church Terrell & Frances E.W.

This week marks the 177th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention , where abolitionists, Quakers, and community members gathered for the first women’s.

Halfway through 2025, there are notable opportunities for women candidates unfolding, from the certainty that Virginia will elect its first-ever woman governor.