RepresentWomen in the News

By Susan J. Demas In 2018, Michigan racked up national headlines for electing three women to top statewide offices: Gretchen Whitmer as governor, Dana Nessel as attorney general and Jocelyn Benson as secretary of...

In the 1980s and ‘90s, few states elected more women to public office than Wyoming did. While women still made up a significant minority of the state’s male-dominated state Legislature, Wyoming ranked among the...

Ella T. Grasso made history in 1974 as the first woman elected governor in her own right but Connecticut now lags behind other states when it comes to gender parity in elective office. A...

Women's lives improve when government is more inclusive. So let's do this already.  Rep. Cheri Bustos, the Illinois lawmaker who is charged with ensuring House Democrats hold on to their majority, had some brutally...

By Lindsey Ellefson The electoral system is rigged against women in the U.S., Cynthia Terrell, founder and executive director of RepresentWomen, said Thursday at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast in Washington, D.C. While noting that...