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Snapshot: Mayors in RCV Cities

January 19, 2023

Ranked choice voting has positive impacts for women's representation in politics; this snapshot displays women's representation in cities that have implemented RCV as of January 2023. Twelve of 30 cities (40%) have women mayors....

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Snapshot: Women on RCV City Councils

January 18, 2023

Ranked choice voting has positive impacts for women's representation in politics; this snapshot displays women's representation in cities that have implemented RCV as of January 2023. When looking at the totality of RCV-elected council...

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Report: The Twin-Track Ecosystem in the 100 Largest Cities

November 01, 2022

Released: November 2022 In 2022, we released a follow-up to our report on women's representation in New York City, “Why Women Won in 2021.” In the report, we expand upon and re-evaluate our findings...

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Report: Why Women Won in 2021

September 12, 2022

Released: September 2022 In 2022, we released a report on the outcome of the 2021 elections in New York City. RepresentWomen partnered with The New Majority NYC (formerly 21 in '21) to study 1)...

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Report: 2022 Gender Parity Index

July 29, 2022

To quantify progress towards gender parity in elected and appointed office, RepresentWomen developed the Gender Parity Index (GPI). Each year, a Gender Parity Score and grade is calculated for each of the 50 states and...

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Peer-Reviewed Article: Election Reform & Women's Representation: Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S.

June 01, 2021

Released: June 2021 In 2021, we published an article in Politics and Governance on the history and impact of single- and multi-winner ranked choice voting on women’s representation in the U.S. In addition to...

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Report: 2020 Gender Parity Index

October 30, 2020

To quantify progress towards gender parity in elected and appointed office, RepresentWomen developed the Gender Parity Index (GPI). Each year, a Gender Parity Score and grade is calculated for each of the 50 states and...

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Chapter: Women and the Presidency

September 21, 2020

In 2020 "Women and the Presidency" was published as a chapter in the book The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times.  This chapter looks at the women who have run for the presidency and...

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Report: In Ranked Choice Elections, Women WIN

July 01, 2020

Released: July 2020 Our 2020 ranked choice voting report, "In Ranked Choice Elections, Women WIN" provides a thorough review of ranked choice voting in the United States and how it is impacting women's representation in...

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Report: International Women's Representation

July 24, 2019

Progress toward gender parity in elected office in the United States has been slow, especially in comparison to other nations. Most countries that rank above the United States for women's political representation have adopted...

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