| September Mon, 2019
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are running dual campaigns
"Waging a successful campaign for office is hard enough for any candidate. Imagine waging two at a time. That's what is required of the women running for president, who have to oversee a traditional campaign in addition to a second one to convince skeptics of their 'electability,'" wrote CAWP scholar Kelly Dittmar in a CNN op-ed.
| September Mon, 2019
Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress
"Krebs really had no chance against Case. An October Rutgers-Eagleton poll had Case ahead 44%-22%, and Richard Nixon leading George McGovern by a 54%-31% margin."
| September Sun, 2019
The Gillibrand Test Case for Women in Politics
“She’s always been politically astute,” said Kelly Dittmar, a Rutgers University professor who studies female candidates. “One of the criticisms that I think is in fact imbued with sexism is that she’s too ambitious and too calculating.”
| August Sat, 2019
Gillibrand commits to raising ‘at least’ $1 million to elect women candidates in 2020
"In 2019, women hold nearly 24 percent of seats in Congress — 25 percent of Senate seats and about 23 percent of House seats, according to Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics."