| March Fri, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand is making paid family leave a defining issue in her 2020 run
“‘In 2016, you saw Hillary Clinton bring it to the forefront as a major policy platform issue, as a standard item in her stump speech. And then you saw Bernie Sanders do the same thing,’ says Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science and scholar at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics.”
| March Thu, 2019
This mom is pushing to use campaign funds for child care. It could help parents around the country.
“Louisiana became one of about eight states to definitively allow the use of campaign funds for child care, according to Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.”
| March Fri, 2019
What women want from this year’s Ready to Run training
“Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver told this year’s Ready to Run Campaign Training for Women at Rutgers University that women are supporting other women and that’s leading to more elected women...Oliver is an alumna of the Center for American Women and Politics’ Ready to Run program.”
| March Thu, 2019
Exchanging jabs like white, male candidates, Lightfoot and Preckwinkle challenge gender and racial stereotypes
“The mayoral race could also represent how some stereotypical images are changing, particularly in politics, said Kelly Dittmar, assistant professor of political science at Rutgers and a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics…”