Great post from the The Boston Globe: "Women can be 360-degree candidates, be policy-minded, and still talk about family. They no longer have to be versions of men to be successful. Being themselves has much more power than we realized." Read...
Great article on the increase in women fundraising and how very crucial the need for more women donors is to electing more women. Great quote from Kirsten Gillibrand: "I was embarrassed to ask people for money, and, at one point something...
When it comes to voter turnout women always tends to outnumber the men. But did you know that only about 30 percent of big donors to campaigns are women? When you stop to think about the billions of dollars of...
Women make up less than 20% of Congress, yet somehow makeup 56% of the voters. Do the math: 80% of congress - the people making decisions about our lives - are men. What's even more frustrating then the obvious lack...
This piece from Forbes explains why it is so difficult for women to fundraise, the theory here translates into politics perfectly. And it is why it's so important for women to support women running for office. “I had a really hard...
“We don’t have much trust right now among the members of Congress but we have it with the women senators.” - Amy Klobuchar A poignant quote from an interesting viewpoint article from the Pensacola news Journal. We couldn't agree more. In...
Fundraising While Female: Women Entrepreneurs And VCs On How To Bridge The Gender Gap is a piece from Forbes that covers something we are all to familiar with. "There’s some good news for women in the massively male-dominated Silicon Valley...
This article is an interesting look at something we've continued to see as an issue for women candidates for office. Though once in office they often outperform their male counterparts , women continue to struggle with fundraising at the same rate...
"Crowdfunding has a democratic angle, much more so than the tech industry at large. For example, 47% of our successful campaigns are female-led, compared to just 15% of VC [venture capitalist] funded companies. That’s because teams and products speak for...
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