US: The Feminist Case Against a Woman President. Iowa Senate sex harassment charges should be investigated. Confronting military sexual assaults.

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The Feminist Case Against a Woman President: A Response to Jessica Valenti The Nation At least, that’s the suggestion of Jessica Valenti’s latest column, “Why I’m Voting for Her,” in which she announces, by turns sheepish and defiant, that the author intends to vote for a woman for president in 2016. In that case, it seems obvious that …

Confronting military sexual assaults video.msnbc.msn.com Hagen tells the panel that women shouldn’t have to be constantly worried about sexual …

GOP Staffer Kristen Anderson Fired After Reporting Sexual Harassment PolicyMic A female staff member of the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus was fired last Friday with no reasons given just seven hours before she filed a memo to the staff director reiterating her previous claims of sexual harassment in the legislative environment.

Sexual harassment allegations in Iowa Senate should be investigated: Branstad The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog) Anderson, who could not be reached for comment Monday, told WHO-TV she and her female co-workers have been subjected to harassment from Senate staff and from senators, too. Among her allegations were claims that women were “objectified” and …

Fired Iowa Senate aide to file complaint alleging sexual harassment Shreveport Times In one instance, in a December meeting with several GOP staffers present, a male staffer made an explicit comment speculating about a female Senate clerk’s sexual preferences, Anderson said. That staffer had a lengthy history of making such remarks …

Women’s sweep of judgeship races no surprise to local political leaders Reading Eagle Republican Chairman John A. Fielding III said women tend to vote for other women, more so than men do for other men. The remaining votes might have been spread among the five men in the eight-way race, reducing their chances of getting one of the two …

 

Mross: After 40 years, is feminism dead? Working to change perception of women in Afghanistan

The chart is from a survey of 500 female business leaders published by Executive Women Australia.

This Chart Shows The Challenge In Getting The Balance Right On Gender Equality Business Insider Australia There’s broad agreement on most of the issues polled, but the chart highlights the acute challenges with getting the balance right between incentives and punishments – carrots and sticks – when it comes to getting companies to take effective action on …

Norwegian Labour Party supports military draft for women IceNews Military duty has long been compulsory for Norwegian men, but the same may soon be true for the country’s women now that the Norwegian Labour Party has approved a measure which would make military service mandatory for all young Norwegians …

BC Conservatives drop candidate for comments about women CBC.ca The B.C. Conservatives have fired another candidate, this time for his comments about women and single mothers, as the deadline approaches for nominating new candidates. Yesterday evening, the party announced they were dropping …

Out-Spent, Out-Numbered, Out-Researched: The Power Of Progressive … Independent Women’s Forum It’s no secret Republicans have a women problem. We’ve read plenty about women voters who supported President Obama 55-44, creating an 11-point gender gap. But we have paid scant attention to the wealth of Progressive women’s organizations that …

Erbe: Saudi film, ‘Wadjda,’ gives hope for women’s rights The Republic It is the first feature-length film directed by a Saudi woman, Haifaa al-Mansour, and the first produced entirely in Saudi Arabia. Its impact will be felt worldwide because its portrayal of one girl’s struggle to own a bicycle has obvious implications for the post-Arab Spring scrimmage by Islamic women to maintain their hard-won rights. Egyptian women, for example, were on the front lines at Tahrir Square. They’ve since been shown the back door by the government they voted to install, setting them back decades….

Mross: After 40 years, is feminism dead?  The Coloradoan Somehow I was unprepared for a male to debate the current state of feminism, but I quickly realized what certainly has always been true: Women’s issues are everyone’s issues. I couldn’t wait to get Erin’s input. My daughter is taking three women’s …

Success stories: Contributing towards women empowerment, every step counts The Express Tribune The platform of the Women Leadership Groups has brought together women from all walks of life, enabling them to focus on women’s issues. Aurat Foundation Chief Operating Officer Naeem Mirza said, “The project contributed towards women’s movement by ..

Working to change perception of women in Afghanistan video.foxnews.com Roya Mahboob of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People works to change continuing stereotypes.

 

The Male Feminist. Want More Gender Equality At Work? Go To An Emerging Market. Tanzania Women Bank promotes gender equity.

First World Problems Are Real Problems The Frisky “Women’s issues,” aren’t the same as “first world problems,” even when they occur in the relative comfort of the first world. The discrimination that women face everyday, whether in slyly subtle or in shockingly overt ways is the product of a history of misogyny that is still wrapped around the cultures that we live in today, squeezing them like a python. In some places, at some points, the python is suffocatingly obvious, and women don’t have basic legal rights. In other places, like here, in my world, women have many basic legal rights but still bear the brunt of poverty, still don’t earn as much as men, and often grow up under the quiet, crushing impression that unless we look a certain, very specific way, we are failing.

The Male Feminist www.nation.lk Vijay Thushandra, is an international master trainer, in peer education (Y-PEER) methodology used in training young people on Adolescent, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. He has represented Sri Lanka in many International forums to raise the voice of Sri Lankan young women and girls. He has a Bachelors degree in Social Work, and holds a higher diploma in International Relations.
Vijay has been recently selected, to work on women’s and girls’ issues with the United Nations and Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation.

So what made become a feminist? I have seen gender-based discrimination from my childhood. I always thought ‘why’; wives are treated as properties and not allowed in decision making. Each and every day from media to public transport I can see girls been abused and harassed. Gender imbalance has become part of our culture.  I believe as young people we have the power to change this.

Merkel faces down challenge over female exec quota GlobalPost German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition defeated an election-year opposition bid Thursday to set a quota for female board members in a vote that exposed a party rift and forced her to give ground. The Bundestag lower house of parliament rejected …

Tanzania Women Bank promotes gender equity Daily News PROMOTION of gender equality, equity and women empowerment is one of the priorities of the government of Tanzania. In this regard, it has taken various measures to address gender inequality and ensure women empowerment in all spheres of life.

Petrobras state-owned oil company CEO Maria das Gracas Silva Foster makes a speech during the Women’s Forum Brazil 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil last year. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Want More Gender Equality At Work? Go To An Emerging Market NPR …”In India, 11 percent of CEOs of the top companies are female,” economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett tells NPR’s Renee Montagne. “The figure here is 3 percent. In Brazil, 12 percent of CEOs are female. It’s also a country with a female head of state. So we have to understand that in some ways, women in these emerging markets are pointing the way.”

Hewlett, the of Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution, attributes part of this success to the excitement of being in a rapidly growing economy, and the opportunities that are afforded by periods of economic transformation. “I think in the U.S. there’s a lot of gender fatigue,” she says. “We’re surrounded by flat-lined growth, high unemployment, and women are losing heart.”

CGE Hosts the Chairperson of the National Gender Commission of Kenya AllAfrica.com Since the 15 April 2013, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has been hosting the Chairperson of the National Gender of Kenya, Mrs Winfred Lichuma. The Chairperson and her colleague, Mr Paul Kuria are here in the country as part of the study tour …

Commission for Gender Equality Responds to the Launch of Commission for … AllAfrica.com The Chairperson of the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE), Commissioner Mfanozelwe Shozi, expressed his concern at the alarmingly slow pace of transformation in the workplace and general non-compliance with employment equity legislation by …

First Lady Tasks National Assembly On Gender Equality in Politics AllAfrica.com The First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has asked the National Assembly to pass into law legislations on affirmative action to empower the Nigerian woman with 30 per cent political participation in the leadership of the country. Mrs Jonathan made this …

Pacific MPs debate gender equality in region Radio New Zealand Only rarely do politicians other than New Zealand MPs address the House, but on Friday and Saturday the Debating Chamber will be given over to the Pacific politicians to discuss issues ranging from gender quality to the role of the media. The debate is …

Gender ministry capacitates kindergartens New Era Windhoek, Namibia – The Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare last year trained 122 kindergarten teachers and constructed 10 community kindergartens that are also known as Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDC). The ministry also renovated 18 …

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Women on top: Phl among most gender equal nations Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank identified the Philippines as a world leader in gender equality, particularly in the fields of legislation, management and government. In its World Development Indicators report released on Thursday, the …

Pacific leaders want action on gender equality – but divided on urgency Scoop.co.nz (press release) Pacific political leaders agree that action needs to be taken on gender equality in the region, although they disagree with the urgency of measures. Delegates from 17 countries addressed the Pacific Parliamentary and Political Leaders Forum in …

Pacific women political representation not good enough, says Fiame Scoop.co.nz (press release) “We are just processing an amendment to our constitution that essentially provides a minimum of 10 percent of representation of women in Parliament,” she said. “Personally I’m not a fan of temporary measures, but I can step back personally to realise …

 

US: Hillary Clinton back in limelight. Record number of GOP women running for N.J. offices.

Hillary Clinton back in limelight with women empowerment speech MSNBC Verveer, Clinton’s former chief of staff during her time as First Lady, served in the Department of State as the inaugural Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. President Obama made the position permanent after Clinton’s exit from the State …

Chris Christie’s Popularity With Women Voters Thwarts Female Opponent National Journal In New Jersey and Virginia–the two states with gubernatorial elections this year–women made up more than half of the 2009 turnout (52 percent in Virginia and 53 percent in New Jersey), ensuring an intense competition for their votes in 2013. These …

Mark Sanford has a woman problem CNN …But some South Carolina Republicans disagree, saying that the female vote could be an issue for Sanford.”Surveys show Sanford has a problem with women, and some may never forgive him,” said Republican strategist Bruce Haynes, a partner in the consulting firm Purple Strategies. “Acknowledgment of perceptions is the first step in rebuilding any reputation, and his choice to bring his fianceé forward is smart.”

Record number of GOP women running for N.J. offices this year Philly.com Democratic strategists say the GOP is simply trying to shed its “old white guy club” image, which alienated women voters in the presidential election. Plus, Republican Gov. Christie is facing Sen. Barbara Buono (D., Middlesex), in the race for governor.

For first time, council will be mostly female Topeka Capital Journal “Topeka has taken a leadership step in the nationwide movement toward acknowledging that both women and men are equally effective as elected public officials,” said Ernestine Krehbiel, president of the League of Women Voters of Kansas. “It is really …

Will Omaha Vote In First Female Mayor Or Retain Incumbent? WOWT When it comes to breaking the glass ceiling of politics, Kay Orr did it when she became Nebraska governor in the mid-80s. Last year, Deb Fischer became the state’s first elected female U.S. senator. Another glass ceiling left is the Omaha mayor’s office.

 

UK: Cameron: We need more top-placed women. Lib Dems draw up plans to boost women MPs. All women on Labour Stockton South Parliamentary shortlist

All women on Labour Stockton South Parliamentary shortlist Gazette Live LABOUR’S candidate to fight the Stockton South Parliamentary seat will be chosen from an all-women shortlist. Labour North has confirmed the party’s National Executive Committee has decided to begin the selection of a candidate to contest the Stockton …

David Cameron wants more women at the top of politics. He should look at the … Telegraph.co.uk (blog) David Cameron says that the Government, the Conservatives, big companies and lots of other large organisations should have more women at a senior level. He says that the answer is not just conventional equal opportunities but a more active effort to …

The House of Commons, where men outnumber women four to one and the Liberal Democrat party comprises just 12% female MPs. Photograph: PA

Lib Dems draw up job-share plans to boost number of women MPs The Guardian The paper points out that currently in the Commons men outnumber women four to one. The Lib Dems lag behind the other major UK political parties. The party in the Commons comprises just 12% women (down from 15% in the previous parliament).

David Cameron: I did not appoint enough women to Cabinet Telegraph.co.uk “My message to David Cameron is that there are plenty of talented women out there and there’s plenty of opportunities to put them in cabinet if he wants to,” she said. “I look at my colleagues from all different backgrounds like Andrea Leadsom and …

We need more top-placed women, says David Cameron The Independent David Cameron, who has come under fire for appointing relatively few female ministers, acknowledged that there were “not nearly enough” women MPs. Speaking during a three-day visit to India, he urged major institutions to remove the barriers to female …

David Cameron admits he didn’t appoint enough women to the Cabinet Marie Claire.co.uk David Cameron has admitted he has not appointed enough women to the Cabinet, saying governments and big companies needed to do more to encourage women. Speaking in Mumbai, the Prime Minister was questioned by a female executive about the …

Cameron: Not Enough Women in Cabinet Daily Beast British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Monday that he had not appointed enough women to his cabinet—and said his wife often encourages him to promote women. “My wife likes to say that if you don’t have women in 50 percent of top…

‘Not nearly enough women’ in Cabinet, says Cameron The Week UK DAVID CAMERON has decided there are not ”nearly” enough women in the top echelons of government. ”My wife likes to say that if you don’t have women in 50 per cent of top positions, you are not missing out on 50 per cent of the talent, you are missing …

‘I don’t have enough women in the cabinet’: David Cameron admits his wife is … Daily Mail David Cameron has admitted that Britain’s government, businesses and the judiciary are lacking women in top positions. He said Britain had a ‘long way to go’ in bringing more women into the boardroom – and revealed his wife, Samantha, has pushed him

David Cameron Admits Not Enough Women In Cabinet Huffington Post UK The Conservative Party, British business and the judiciary need to do more to get women into senior positions, David Cameron said on Monday. The prime minister acknowledged that – despite the increase at the 2010 general election – there are “not …

Does Cameron need his wife to tell him the value of female MPs? Telegraph.co.uk Prime Minister David Cameron has finally admitted it: he hasn’t appointed enough women to the Cabinet. It’s taken 22 weeks and for him to be approximately 4,500 miles away from the UK to ‘fess up himself to a failing in strategy everyone has been …

David Cameron: I have not put enough women into the Cabinet The Times (subscription) David Cameron admitted that there were “not nearly enough” women in his Cabinet today, saying he needed to do more to address the gender balance in Britain. Speaking during his trip to India, the Prime Minister said the UK needed more women in the …

 

US: Eric Cantor: I ‘Care Very Deeply About Women’. Feminist Colleges: 8 Universities That Support Women’s Rights

Eric Cantor: I ‘Care Very Deeply About Women’ Huffington Post The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched a new ad on Tuesday accusing Cantor of stalling last year’s VAWA reauthorization and associating with “the Tea Party War on Women.” Cantor has tried to counter those accusations by insisting …

Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez Aim to Recruit Minority, Female GOP Candidates ABC News Republicans are looking to bolster their ranks of female and minority elected officials after the party struggled to attract those voters during last November’s election. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez have been tapped …

Why a woman may win the White House in 2016 … Video on NBCNews.com: Hillary or no Hillary, Steve  Kornacki explains new evidence for why a …

Obama nominates first woman to second term … Video on NBCNews.com: Political strategists Angela Rye and David Winston discuss the …

Feminist Colleges: 8 Universities That Support Women’s Rights (PHOTOS) Huffington Post From awesome women’s activism to feminist a cappella groups, these schools are full of girl power. These schools have special programming dedicated to women’s issues, very active feminist alliances and student bodies that bring women’s and gender …

Woman to Women: A brief history of women in Congress Atascadero News How do American voters feel about women running for office? In the Ladies Home Journal in October, it was asked, “Do you believe men or women make better political leaders?” Twenty percent answered men, 27 percent said women and 53 percent said …

 

Mauritius Quadruples Levels Of Women In Local Government, Soft targets of election violence

Women, youth key to Gujarat election outcome Livemint According to analysts, census towns in the state are under the influence of urban areas and may mimic their voting pattern, which in turn may work in the favour of the BJP.

Egyptian women claim judge barred them from voting San Antonio Express Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans as one holds up the Quran, Islam’s hold book, during a demonstration after the Friday prayer, in Cairo, Egypt. Opposing sides in Egypt’s political crisis were staging …

Group of Christian women banned from voting in Egypt’s referendum Al-Arabiya A group of Egypt’s Christian women voters were banned on Saturday in Cairo’s Nasr City from casting their ballot in a disputed constitutional referendum, an Al Arabiya correspondent and AFP reported. Nasr City was the scene of mass rallies last night …

Imran for genuine women representation The News International LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan Sunday vowed to bring a genuine representation for women in the assembly through direct election. Addressing a seminar on the topic of ‘Justice for Women’ here, Imran Khan said he was against ..

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Africa: Mauritius Quadruples The Level Of Women In Local Government Your Olive Branch Port Louis — Gender Links today congratulated the Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam as well as the Minister of Local Government, Louis Herve Aimee for the four fold increase of women in local government in the 2-9 December local elections.

Soft targets of election violence The Standard Digital News The UN Women wants the elections body to ensure they deliver elections that are not only free and fair, but secure for both male and female aspirants. Political experts stress that the onus is on political parties to involve more women in their leadership.

2012 Election Showed Single Women Avoiding GOP Huffington Post DENVER — Sara Stevenson spends her working hours surrounded by Republicans, namely the married men who work alongside her in a Denver oil and gas firm company. But after hours and on weekends, she usually spends her time with other single …

South Florida to promote female representation in the corporate world Examiner.com  According to WEL and 2020 Women on Boards, 14.6% of US Corporate Boards are made up of women. A major goal of these nationwide meetings is to increase this female representation to at least 20% by the year 2020. More specifically, this percentage is …

 

Nick Clegg is not going to give working mothers a helping hand, Sketch: Maria Miller wrestles with the childcare conundrum

A tax break for married couples in next year’s Budget would help tackle child … Daily Mail At least three Cabinet ministers are backing demands for David Cameron to deliver a tax break for married couples within months. Allies of Iain Duncan Smith, Owen Paterson and Chris Grayling indicated yesterday that they want the long-promised measure – worth £150 a year – to be introduced in the Budget in spring 2013.

Sketch: Maria Miller wrestles with the childcare conundrum Telegraph.co.uk Maria Miller, Minister for Women, was answering a question about how to interest men in the battle for workplace equality. “I can assure you that the men I work with are very engaged in this issue,” said Mrs Miller.Probably she was thinking of men like David Cameron, who appointed as many as five women to his latest Cabinet, next to just 27 men. He’s practically Germaine Greer.

Dream on: Britain is the only major European economy without family tax breaks but the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg characterises them as a return to the 1950s Photo: Getty Images

Nick Clegg is not going to give working mothers a helping hand Telegraph.co.uk Nick Clegg has a vision for Britain. He wants a new and more equal society, in which women are freed from the burden of motherhood and everyone takes a share in raising children. In this ideal world, fathers will spend as much time as mothers in caring …

Sketch: Nick Clegg plays Mummies and Daddies Telegraph.co.uk Whatever else you think about Nick Clegg, you have to admit he means well. Of course, you may counter that a five-year-old boy feeding a box of Milk Tray to the dog “means well”, but you wouldn’t necessarily want that boy running the country.To which I in turn would counter: hey, come on, give the boy a break, he’s set out a compelling vision for the abolition of vegetables plus he can do all the times tables up to six, which would make him a real boon to the Treasury.

 

How GOP Can Overcome Women’s Trust Issues, GOP must shed it’s grumpy-white-man image

Hey, Rush Limbaugh: ‘Starting an Abortion Industry’ Won’t Win You Female Voters Rolling Stone It’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad that the Rushes of the world are too clueless to realize that it’s their attitude, not their policies, that is screwing them most with minority voters…

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Republicans ponder painful way forward The Star-Ledger – NJ.com The takeaway among party leaders was virtually unanimous: The GOP faces a years-long challenge of reaching out to Americans beyond its predominantly white, male base and updating a voter turnout machine that’s woefully out of date.

The Power of a Woman with a Meme Harvard Business Review (blog) If the Republican Party learned one thing this election cycle, it’s that women with opinions are a force to be reckoned with. But do brands understand that? Women dominate nearly every major social media network. Weekly, 67.5 million women are logged …

Here’s How The GOP Can Overcome Women’s Trust Issues With Conservatives Forbes As conservatives study the election data in order to figure out what went wrong, they need to focus on overcoming the significant trust issues that women have with the GOP. Supporters of limited government and free markets need to find new ways to …

How women ruled the 2012 election and where the GOP went wrong CNN - In many ways, the 2012 election was the year of the woman. Women — who have historically formed one of President Barack Obama’s key constituencies — once again united behind him in large numbers and helped fend off defections …

The GOP must shed it’s grumpy-white-man image The Seattle Times A coalition of aging white men is a recipe for failure in a nation that increasingly looks like a rainbow, writes Nicholas D. Kristof. America needs a plausible center-right opposition party to hold Obama’s feet to the fire, not just a collection of tea-party cranks.

The dwindling minority of white male voters Chicago Reader ”Obama received the votes of barely 1 in 3 white males,” says the front page of Thursday’s Tribune. Making white males about the only significant minority that didn’t favor the incumbent. But then, significant might be overstating their importance.

Hutchison: GOP can’t ‘throw away’ women Politico “When we talk about women’s issues and the social issues, people have to stop acting like the woman is a throw-away here,” the Texas senator, who is retiring, said on CNN’s “Starting Point.” “We’ve got to talk to women about the issues they care about …

“A ‘Mad Men’ Party in a ‘Modern Family’ America”: On The Future of the … Autostraddle Since the 1960s, the Republicans have built themselves on being the party of the conservative white man. And indeed, the last time a Democrat won a majority or plurality of the white vote was in 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson won all but six …

GOP Women And Abortion Dismissal Was A ‘Strategic Error,’ Conservatives Scold Huffington Post Dismissing reproductive rights and other women’s issues as a “distraction” from the economy was a strategic mistake by Republicans that could have cost them the election, conservative pundits and women’s groups charged on Wednesday. President … (Photo: Mitt Romney holds a flyer as he speaks in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, April 11, 2012 AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Senate races exposed extent of GOP’s women problem San Jose Mercury News In Indiana and Missouri, home to some of the more reliably conservative women voters in the country, Republicans lost their Senate battles even as many of those voters rejected President Barack Obama. In Wisconsin, the Republican candidate, a former …

Demographic Shift Will Continue To Leave Republicans On Losing Side [Analysis] ForexTV.com … Obama secured a second term in the Oval Office, and the Republican party has found itself faced with a metastasizing existential problem — an inability to woo minority and youth voters and a refusal to acknowledge the necessity of expanding the party.

Nev. women doom Romney; GOP strategy reconsidered San Francisco Chronicle Romney lost Nevada in large part because of a double-digit gender gap that saw a majority of women voters break Democratic. Exit poll results show the president took a comfortable lead among women in Nevada, highlighting a problem that some GOP…

GOP leaders and political analysts urge introspection and outreach to women … New York Daily News The problem: by trying to appeal to a dwindling base of aging conservative whites, the party has been turning off key voting groups like African-Americans, women and especially Hispanics, some. Republicans said. “We have a period of reflection and …

Conservative thinking Republicans ponder party’s future course Boston Globe One faction sees a need for the party to adapt its policies for an electorate that includes more women and people of color. Some conservatives say a better approach is persuading people in those constituencies that the Republican Party stands for them.

 

No Country For White Men, Gender Gap Decisive in Marriage Equality Victories

What’s Up with White Women? They Voted for Romney, Too New Yorker (blog) Age is another factor. Whites, on average, tend to be older than non-whites, and older people (male and female) tend to vote Republican in greater numbers. Religion is also part of the story. Most white women, like most white men, are churchgoing …

The Elephant in the Exit Poll Results: Most Women Supported Romney Huffington Post There have been several headlines about how women, young voters, and even Catholics led the way for Obama. However, it wasn’t the youth, female or any aspect of the religious vote that we should credit; it was the African American and Latino vote.

Gender Gap Costly: Women’s Votes Decisive in Presidential and Senate Races Huffington Post The problem the Republican Party has with women is deep and costly. Their attacks on women’s rights all add up to a widely perceived Republican War on Women that significantly influenced the outcome of the election by creating impactful gender gaps in …

How Qualified Female Candidates Win Elections Boston Daily (blog) It’s been widely noted that female candidates made big gains in this year’s election, in part due to their strong defense against the right’s “war on women.” But how, exactly, did they get it done? New research released this week from the Boston-based …

Minnesota Exit Poll: Gender Gap Decides Amendment | KSTP TV …Men were solidly in favor of the amendment, according to exit polling, but women voted against it by a larger margin. Voters under age 50 also were against it by …

Gender Gap Decisive in Marriage Equality Victories Huffington Post Decisive and large gender gaps emerged in exits polls in all four states with women voting in solid majorities in favor of marriage equality and men opposing, albeit with weaker majorities. If only men had voted, marriage equality would have been …

Gender Gap Decisive in Marriage Equality Ballot Measures Ms. Magazine Decisive and large gender gaps emerged in exits polls in all four states with women voting in solid majorities in favor of marriage equality and men opposing, albeit with weaker majorities. “Women are always cast as the more conservative sex …

A battle won in war on women Ottawa Citizen (blog) It might make sense for Canada to have coherent abortion laws rather than a policy vacuum, but there are good reasons why women who have watched what is going on south of the border would be nervous. In the war on women, Tuesday’s election was …

No Country For White Men Daily Beast But if you want real evidence that the “War on Women” meme paid off, take a look at the swing in the gender gap in states that were bombarded with Democratic advertising. In Iowa, the 2008 gender gap was 5 points. This year it was 15. Ohio swung from a …

Women wield record influence at polls, make historic gains in US Senate St. Louis Beacon – Instead of “binders full of women,” political candidates on Tuesday discovered voting booths full of women who had an impact on the outcome of many races around the country. One of the major outcomes – not only of the female vote but …

Why Romney lost Nevada: Women and the gender gap Reno Gazette Journal In this Oct. 24, 2012 photo, women backing President Obama protest outside a convention center in Reno where Republican Mitt Romney was giving a campaign speech. Exit polls show significant support from women was a key factor in Obama’s victory over …

Exit poll: women help Obama to Oregon victory NewsOK.com Here’s a look at their views, according to preliminary exit poll data conducted in Oregon for The Associated Press and television networks: … LEGALIZING POT: Oregon women were more opposed to the measure to regulate marijuana like alcohol than men.

Sen. Hutchison: ‘Stupid’ comments cost GOP female voters The Hill (blog) During an interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, Hutchison was asked to explain the gender gap that saw President Obama post a strong edge over GOP nominee Mitt Romney with female voters. “I think we had Republican candidates who got very …

Women voters lead way in rejecting extremism Kansas City Star Exit polling by The Associated Press showed women voters going for McCaskill over Akin by a three to two margin, while men supported the two about equally. Younger women favored McCaskill overwhelmingly. In fact, McCaskill benefited hugely from a …

Political Winners Include Women Immigrants National Journal History was made this week on many fronts, one of which was the election of an unprecedented number of women to the 113th US Congress. Notable among these newly elected women are Elizabeth Warren, whose high-profile campaign was a rallying cry …

When Women Vote, Changes Are Made Huffington Post This election season has been about women and yet, not about women. But, women have shown their collective voices through their votes. According to the Reuters Center for American Women and Politics, every presidential election since 1980 has seen the …

Election 2012: Michele Swers on Women in … georgetown.edu Michele Swers, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, discusses the election …

Impact of women’s vote on 2012 election video.foxnews.com How did female voters shape the race? 8:23 min Nov 8, 2012 …

Women and the Election 3 min It was a big election for women, with a record-breaking number of women in the Senate …