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Woman Governor
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State Fact Sheet

Results from primary and special elections in CA, IA, MS, MT, NJ, NM, and SD: California Special Election Will Yield New Record for Women in Congress

LAST UPDATED: 7.17.22 12:30pm ET (final results) Seven primaries were held on Tuesday in California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Full context about women in the 2022 elections, including candidate lists, summaries, and historical comparisons, are available via the Center for American Women and Politics’ (CAWP)...

Women Will Dominate General Election Ballots in Iowa and New Mexico This Fall

Congressional and statewide primaries were held on Tuesday in seven states: Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota. Results were also reported from Idaho’s May 19 th primary election. Due to the reliance on mail-in voting, some races remain too close to call, so this post will be updated as results are determined. Full...

Early June Primaries Shed Light on Gender Trends to Watch in Election 2020

The 2020 sub-presidential primary election season kicked off on March 3rd with congressional and statewide primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, and Texas. But within weeks of those contests, the COVID-19 pandemic created entirely new electoral conditions across the country. In addition to shifting to mail-in voting as the primary mode...

Women on the Front Lines in States’ Fights Against COVID19

The gendered dimensions of today’s global pandemic are being revealed, felt, and analyzed in real time. From the gender differences in infection and death rates ( higher for men ) to the amplification of gender inequities in the economic and domestic spheres that heighten the vulnerability of women’s economic, physical, and mental health, the gendered impact...

Madam for America

Madam for America is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping to identify, recruit, train, elect, and appoint Black women at every level of government in the Midwest. 

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