August 26, 2025 marks the 105th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying or abridging citizens' right to vote on account of sex. While turnout among women voters lagged men's turnout immediately after suffrage due to formal and informal contributors to disenfranchisement, the gender gap in...
In the past decade, women have achieved near parity with men among Democratic state legislators. Women remain less than a quarter of all Republican state legislators.From 2016 to 2025, women have increased their representation in state legislatures by almost ten percentage points (24.4% to 33.5%). Women are now nearly 50% of all Democratic state legislators...
We recently published our Final Analysis: Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024 report, concluding CAWP’s research on fundraising and donating for the 2024 election cycle. One of the key findings from CAWP’s 2024 Women, Money, & Politics Watch project is that women from historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups are especially underrepresented as...
CAWP has called on gender and politics experts in previous election cycles to contribute their thoughts on campaign themes and dynamics. Again in election 2024, we invited over fifty scholars and practitioners to share their research and practice-based insights on gender and intersectional dynamics in this year’s elections. Their expertise should inform the...
Black women have already and will continue to play critical roles in Election 2024 as candidates, practitioners, activists, and voters. As we anticipate and interpret political events and outcomes in the remaining weeks of this year’s campaigns, it is important to take stock of what we already know about Black women’s political behavior, experiences, and...
