| June Mon, 2019
Are Moms Who Run For Office Held To A Different Standard Than Dads? Two Local Candidates Say Yes.
"“Mothers have always run for office,' says Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the center. 'But the messaging is shifting in that what we saw in the most recent election cycle is that women really used motherhood as an asset in terms of their campaign.'"
| May Thu, 2019
Inside the Fight to Help More Women Get Elected in 2020
“According to The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University and The Women in Public Service Project, 125 women, including 45 women of color, won their seats for the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate in the 2018 election cycle.”
| May Thu, 2019
NJ Candidate Would Be 1st Openly Transgender Repulican Legislator
“Chelsea Hill, of the Center for American Women and Politics at the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics, said on Wednesday to the institute's knowledge, ‘there haven't been any openly transgender Republican women elected to state legislatures.’"
| May Tue, 2019
Republican Women Watch Their Numbers Decline in State Legislatures
“According to Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), women make up 20.7 percent of Republicans in Democratic-led legislatures but only 16 percent of Republicans in states where the GOP is the majority.”