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Electing Women: Is Fear of the Campaign a Cop Out?

By on November 29, 2012

While at the BlogHer’12 conference this past summer, I attended a fantastic panel on social media and electing women to public office. During and after the panel, there was a lively Twitter thread happening, in parallel, on the topic. You can read the whole thread by searching for #BH12ElectWomen. It includes panelists, members of the [...]

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Nikki Haley Could Have Been Vice President

By on April 3, 2012

Who could be better as a Republican vice presidential pick than a young, attractive, up-and-coming rising star who happens to be a woman of color, a mom of young children and the governor of an important Southern state? The GOP is sorely in need of repairing the damage it’s done to itself with the “woman’s [...]

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Who Are Our Biggest Opponents When it Comes to Running for Office?

By on March 30, 2012

Who’s getting in our way when it comes to women in elective office? Ourselves, in many cases. Whether it be doubting that we can win, not wanting to leave our young children at home in the care of others while we’re on the campaign trail or in office, or whether we just don’t think we [...]

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Men Rule: New Study Gives 7 Reasons Women Don’t Run for Office

By on January 14, 2012

Men still rule the school when it comes to the world of politics. I know that’s not really news, but it’s good to have someone do a study about this sort of thing just to remind us that the more things change (there are more women in elective office today than a couple of decades [...]

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Running for Office is a Woman’s Job — on Television

By on November 11, 2011

Women are running for office in record numbers in 2012. Claire Dunphy just announced for city council in her suburban Los Angeles enclave. Leslie Knope is running for mayor in Pawnee, Indiana, and she already has a web site to prove it. Sue Sylvester’s Ohio congressional run is well under way. And Diane Lockhart is [...]

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