Publications

This report from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and the Higher Heights Leadership Fund outlines the status of Black women in American politics as of July 2025. 

The final report of the Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024 project analyzes campaign contributions by individuals to major party candidates, both women and men, who ran at the congressional and state level. Analyses were conducted by candidate gender, party, chamber, and seat status, as well as women’s race/ethnicity.

This report details the numeric gains and sites for stasis for women in congressional, statewide elective executive, and state legislative elections in 2024, with particular attention to differences with men, between parties, and among women of different racial and ethnic groups.

This report provides a 2025 update to a demographic overview of officials appointed to state boards, commissions, and authorities in New Jersey in a project created by the New Jersey Legislature.

This report provides a 2025 update to a demographic overview of elected officials serving in New Jersey in a project created by the New Jersey Legislature.

This report, produced in collaboration with the Latina Civic Foundation, provides a comprehensive analysis of the disparities, challenges, and opportunities for increased political engagement and representation for Latinas in the state.

This project analyzes campaign contributions by individuals to major party congressional and state women and men candidates. It will be updated periodically during the 2024 election cycle.

This report examines women’s political power within diverse state political ecosystems and illustrates that increasing women’s political power is a multi-site, multiracial, and bipartisan endeavor.

Part two of CAWP's Data to Diversity project analyzes the demographics of officials appointed to state boards, commissions, and authorities in New Jersey. Specifically, this report focuses on the gender and ethnic diversity of New Jersey's appointed public officials. 

This interactive experience using data visualizations examines the intersection of campaign finance and gender from both the donor and recipient perspective, with state-by-state analysis and partisan breakdowns. Once again, our campaign finance research shows women lagging men both as donors and in the amounts donated.