PAC & Donor Spending on Women Candidates
PAC and Donor Spending
RepresentWomen teamed up with the Center for Responsive Politics, to analyze the data collected on PAC and individual donations during the 2018 election with a gender lens. Our analysis can be found in our report, "PACs and Donors: Agents of Change for Women's Representation" the follow up to our 2016 report "Individual and PAC Giving to Women Candidates." Our data center can be found here.
The full report can be found here.
Our findings include:
- Individual donors are less likely to be women.
- It takes more money to win as a woman.
- Republican women are a particularly underfunded candidate demographic.
- Intentional action must be taken by PACs and donors to level the electoral playing field.
