Weekend Reading

Halloween-themed Weekend Reading highlights woman-majority councils, the NYC pay gap, judicial appointments, and barriers to women’s political power.

This week, the RepresentWomen team released a new brief titled “ Proportional Ranked Choice Voting (PRCV): Promoting Fair Elections and Removing Barriers for.

Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep 's words remind us about the structural barriers women face in politics and society: “Women have lived in the house of men.

New brief highlights record gains for women in global elections, the impact of quotas, NYC’s women-majority council, and Nobel research on the gender pay gap.

Senator Diane Feinstein, a trailblazing woman leader, died today at the age of 90. We remember and celebrate her courage and tenacity.

This Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day .

This week's Weekend Reading is designed to provide an update on our work as we celebrate our 5th anniversary as an independent, non-profit, non partisan.

As the U.S. Open draws to a close, it's important to acknowledge its role in advancing gender equality.

A Time Magazine essay by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf highlights the overlap between feminism and democracy. In 1971, Rep.

Tomorrow, August 26th, is Women's Equality Day , which marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment.

Gender Parity Index sparks debate as stories highlight ranked choice voting, Black women candidates, FIFA leadership gaps, and parity progress nationwide.

This week the RepresentWomen team released the 2023 Gender Parity Index , an annual report outlining the status of women’s representation in the 50 states.

Recently, Frontline featured the World Economic Forum's 17th annual Global Gender Gap report, which highlighted the significant progress needed to achieve.

Last weekend two of the most highly anticipated films of 2023, Barbie and Oppenheimer , had their box office debut.

This week marks the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention when suffragists and abolitionists convened to ignite the movement for women's political.

The team here at RepresentWomen focuses much of our research on identifying ways to increase women’s political representation – primarily by getting more women.

This week's celebration of the 247th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence is a reminder that the United States was founded on the.

This Tuesday, New York City held ranked choice voting primary elections for the city council.