Expert Outlooks: What to Watch in Election 2020

November 4, 2019
Kelly Dittmar

With one year to go until Election Day 2020, the Center for American Women and Politics has asked experts in gender and politics – scholars and practitioners alike – to provide their outlooks for the gender and intersectional dynamics to watch in the next year. See their contributions below and stay tuned to CAWP’s Election Watch throughout the campaign for...

What Will Hill's Experience Mean for Women's Political Engagement?

October 31, 2019
Claire Gothreau

On Sunday night, freshman Representative Katie Hill (D-CA) announced she was resigning from her position in Congress after allegations of an affair with a member of her congressional staff. These allegations were brought on by the non-consensual publication of nude photos of the congresswoman. Right wing blogs and British tabloid The Daily Mail shared these...

Women State Legislators: Report from a Conference

As an educational and research center concerned with increasing the contribution women can make to the American political system, the Center for the American Woman and Politics decided to hold a series of conferences for women already in public life, who could address themselves to questions about women’s political participation on the basis of personal experience. This report deals with the first such conference, which was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Conference for Women State Legislators brought together fifty women officeholders from twenty-eight states. At the time, out of a nationwide total of

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Political Woman

Commissioned by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Kirkpatrick's book is the first major study of women in American public life.  Kirkpatrick interviewed women state legislators attending the historic first national gathering of elected women, the Conference for Women State Legislators, convened by CAWP in May 1972. Funded with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the conference focused on the backgrounds, attitudes and experiences of women elected to state legislatures. The book details the struggles political women faced as they ran their campaigns, coped with the prejudices of constituents and colleagues, and

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The 2020 Election is Nearly One Year Away: Here’s What We Learned From 2018.

October 10, 2019
Kelly Dittmar

Early in the 2018 campaign, Debbie Walsh, Director of the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), and I issued a note of caution about the gender progress we would see as a result of the midterm elections. Our motto was “under-promise and over-deliver,” noting that gender parity for women in American politics was not going to be achieved in any single...

Record Number of Women Advance to General Elections in Virginia General Assembly Races

July 9, 2019

Record Number of Women Win Primary Races for New Jersey State Assembly Seats

June 5, 2019

What We’re Watching: Second Time’s the Charm?

May 14, 2019
CAWP Staff

At the end of the 2018 midterm cycle, our friends and collaborators at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation published a new research memo, Relaunch: Resilience and Rebuilding for Women Candidates After an Electoral Loss , that looked at voter perceptions of losing candidates and how those candidates might make a successful electoral appeal moving forward. This...

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