| December Wed, 2023
Texas Ranked Second-Worst State for Women’s Equality
To put together its study, WalletHub gathered and evaluated data from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Center for American Women and Politics and Institute for Women’s Policy Research, among others.
| November Tue, 2023
Black donors, power brokers take note of Alsobrooks’s historic Senate run
“Early money is like yeast. It makes the dough rise,” said Kira Sanbonmatsu, a political science professor at Rutgers University and senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
| November Tue, 2023
‘We should all be represented’: Rhode Island could send the first Afro-Latina to Congress
Latinas, who make up more than 9 percent of the country’s population, remain underrepresented across all levels of elected office. Latinas make up less than 3 percent of elected officials in state and federal offices, according to a 2022 report from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and Latinas Represent.
| November Tue, 2023
Is Wyoming Living Up to Its “Equality State” Legacy?
Female representation in the state Legislature hit a peak in the mid-1980s, when more than 25% of state legislators were women, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. At that point, Wyoming led the nation in female representation.