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Our Democracy Has Problems. Women Have Solutions.

March 29, 2022

By Cynthia Richie Terrell and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf Originally published in Ms. Magazine, 2/22/2022 These are trying times, no doubt. We have heard multiple well-informed people talk about plans to become self-reliant homesteaders because of...

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New Research Shows Ranked Choice Voting Helps Women Win

August 05, 2020

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is among the women officials elected through ranked choice voting. Nearly 100 years after a large number of American women won the right to vote, progress for women in...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation July 10, 2020

July 10, 2020

Photo courtesy of Gender Avenger Christina Morillo, via Pexels (cropped) Dear women's representation enthusiasts, News of Supreme Court decisions and the sweltering heat of Washington, DC are hard to avoid but there have also been some developments...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation July 2, 2020

July 02, 2020

Getty Images: 116th Congress Dear women's representation enthusiasts, There were several key primaries this week with fascinating wins and losses for women candidates along with a number of landmark Supreme Court decisions that will...

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We're Still Not Giving Women Equal Opportunity to Run and Win

June 26, 2020

By Cynthia Richie Terrell There’s a reason for the phrase “Money makes the world go around.” As we’ve seen this election cycle, no matter a candidate’s platform or connections, they won’t get anywhere without...

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We're Still Not Giving Women Equal Opportunity to Run and Win

June 26, 2020

By Cynthia Richie Terrell There’s a reason for the phrase “Money makes the world go around.” As we’ve seen this election cycle, no matter a candidate’s platform or connections, they won’t get anywhere without...

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Warren exits, and our hopes for a woman president once again are dashed

March 08, 2020

Greg Nash, The Hill By Cynthia Richie Terrell Sen. Elizabeth Warren has exited the Democratic presidential primary and with her go our hopes for a woman president during the 2020 suffrage centennial. The primary...

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Warren exits, and our hopes for a woman president once again are dashed

March 08, 2020

Greg Nash, The Hill By Cynthia Richie Terrell Sen. Elizabeth Warren has exited the Democratic presidential primary and with her go our hopes for a woman president during the 2020 suffrage centennial. The primary...

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Women's representation is the heart of the democracy reform movement

March 02, 2020

Abigail Adams may have been the first woman to engage in democracy reform in the United States. (MPI/Getty Images)   Terrell is the founder and executive director of RepresentWomen, a nonpartisan organization that advocates...

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A Better Way to Honor Women's History Month

March 30, 2019

By Cynthia Richie Terrell Sojourner Truth didn’t deliver her iconic “Ain’t I a Woman?” address for the sake of an inspirational Instagram post. Susan B. Anthony didn’t champion women’s voting rights for a special...

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