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Brief: Impact Analysis of NYC's Woman Majority Council

July 17, 2023

In the 2021 ranked choice voting primary elections, women in New York City made history, securing a majority on the city council. Two years later, RepresentWomen sought to uncover the impact of a woman...

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Memo: International Voting Systems

March 09, 2023

  Women’s political representation is vital to sustaining good governance worldwide. But while women comprise over half of the world’s population, men still hold the majority of seats in almost every legislature. Research has shown that diversity in...

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Dashboard: Ranked Choice Voting and Women's Representation in the U.S.

January 23, 2023

In 2022, we released an interactive dashboard to present the latest data on women's representation in ranked choice cities. In addition to providing summary data on where ranked choice voting (RCV) is used and...

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Memo: Ranked Choice Voting and Women's Representation

January 23, 2023

The following memo presents an update to our 2020 analysis of voting systems in the U.S. and their impact on women’s representation.  Overall, we have found that women continue to fare better in jurisdictions that...

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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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