- the NYC Charter Commission has included RCV in their list of recommendations - please contact the Commission directly if you are a New Yorker and would like to let them know why you support RCV - see this story in the Gotham Gazette
- legislators in New Hampshire are considering using RCV for their presidential primary according to this story in AP
- Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is testing the waters to run as an independent candidate for president - prompting a blizzard of commentary on social media pointing out the need for ranked choice voting and a number of good articles including this one by Rachel Kleinfield in The Hill and this one in The Economist
- a number of state legislatures are considering ranked choice voting legislation - just today there was a unanimous committee vote in favor of RCV in Annapolis, Maryland - perhaps the delegates were persuaded by my letter to the editor in The Washington Post?
- the democratic field has gotten more crowded spurring a lot of commentary on social media and a number of good articles including this one by my husband in The Hill that has been shared over 7,000 times
- Academy Award voters are using ranked choice voting to select best picture which of course leads to the inevitable question - if RCV is deemed the fairest voting system for Oscar voters isn't it time we upgraded the way the rest of us get to vote too?
It’s now 2019 and leading public health scholars still tend to downplay the potential effects of political determinants such as gender politics on population health. Instead, they opt to focus almost exclusively on individual and social determinants of health.
We believe gender politics matters in public health because it helps to determine “who gets what, when and how.”
We believe that electing more women in government not only promotes gender equality and strengthens democratic institutions but also makes real and substantive contributions to government spending and population health.
Given that women in government can bring about desirable changes in population health, let’s figure out how we can genuinely level the political playing field for women.
Ms Sturgeon’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls also believes creating an institute to change public attitudes to equality and rights.
The What Works? Institute would develop and test ways to change these attitudes, including how to break down stereotypes of what girls and women should study and work as.
Topic: Female Presidential Candidates
The ERA isn’t Dead After All
Should Young Women Be Drafted?
Panel: Lara Brown, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); Linda Chavez, Chair Emeritus, Center for Equal Opportunity; Tiana Lowe, Washington Examine Commentary Writer
It’s 2019, a surge of women just won election to Congress and the Virginia legislature, and it looks like the Equal Rights Amendment may be stopped dead in its tracks again.
By a woman. Again.
Meet the new Phyllis Schlafly: Victoria Cobb, who says she achieved all her success before reaching her 40th birthday without help from any amendment, so the rest of American women don’t need it, either.
“I’m a third-generation opponent of the ERA, actually,” she told me, when I asked her if she’s today’s Schlafly, the ultraconservative woman who led the charge in derailing the amendment in the 1970s by convincing America that women would be drafted into combat and toilets would all be unisex if the amendment passed.
The ERA, first written 95 years ago, regained new momentum in this #MeToo era after years of dormancy. And Virginia was poised to become the 38th state to ratify it, filling in that three-quarters majority of states required for it to become official. In Richmond, the GOP-led Senate passed the ERA bill earlier this month. And celebrities, lawmakers and activists were touting its revival on Capitol Hill in Washington.
It snowed, again, today in Washington, DC - I hope that all are safe and warm.,Cynthia
