The Electing Women Alliance is kicking off its 10th Anniversary Convening last week in Washington, DC. This coincides exactly with our 10th anniversary, before WomenCount and EWA officially became partners. So we’re taking a look back—and ahead. 

WomenCount has been around since the 1990s, but it was 10 years ago that we became an online giving platform focused solely on raising money for Democratic women. Since then, we’ve been growing every year and notching victories. 

We officially launched in October 2015 to coincide with Secretary Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. That cycle, we raised just over $300,000 for the entire cycle. The next cycle—2018—we cracked $1.5 million. Last cycle, we raised more than $4 million. 

We’ve seen political victories too, even though the highest, hardest glass ceiling has not yet been broken. 

• When we re-launched in 2015, women made up 19 percent of Congress, 12 percent of governorships, and 24 percent of state legislatures. Now, women make up 28 percent of Congress, 24 percent of governorships and 34 percent of state legislatures—progress, but still far from parity.
• We now have two Black women serving in the US Senate for the first time ever, and the first transgender woman to ever serve in Congress.
• Multiple women ran for president in 2020, and one of those women, then-Sen. Kamala Harris, became the first female vice president in history.
• Vice President Harris’s own presidential run in 2024 was historic, as she became the first Black woman nominated on a major party ticket, adding to the cracks in the presidential glass ceiling that Secretary Clinton, Rep. Shirley Chisholm and others have made over the years. 

We need to keep going until women are represented, at parity, at every level of government. 

For our 10th Anniversary, help us keep closing the political gender giving gap for 10 more years, or however long it takes, by chipping in $10 or more for our 10th anniversary.