| May Thu, 2019
Adrienne Jones elected Maryland’s first African-American, female House speaker
CNN cites a statistic found by Eagleton’s Center for American Women and Politics that says Adrienne Jones is the third African-American woman to hold a state speaker position nationwide.
| April Wed, 2019
Kamala Harris chooses women of color to drive her campaign
Kelly Dittmar, scholar at Eagleton’s Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, tells CNN that Harris' emphasis on diversity "smart politics."
| April Mon, 2019
With so many women running for president, why is focus still on the men?
CAWP scholar Kelly Dittmar talks to The Christian Science Monitor about the 2020 Democratic primaries.
| April Mon, 2019
2020 could disrupt New Mexico’s all-male Senate lineage
"Kelly Dittmar, a Rutgers professor and scholar at the Center for American Woman and Politics, said male candidates for the House and Senate still outnumbered females more than 3-1 in 2018 — a major factor in the persistent gender gap among those elected."