women politicians
Coakley Criticism Proves Stereotypes Still Hurt Female Candidates
January 21, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)
When will female candidates learn? You can't be too emotional, that makes you seem weak. So how can they act, you ask? That question remains unanswered.
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Women candidates and money: Another double standard?
reader diary by Lauren Martin
January 5, 2010 - 12:06pm (Print)
A woman can either be a prude or promiscuous. Too pretty or too masculine. A shrew or a doormat. As women try to tip-toe somewhere in the middle, we find that one small move can send us plunging straight into one of the extremes.
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Unfinished Business: Gender Inequality in India's Parliament
by Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia
May 21, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Despite some progress in electing women, too few women legislators are getting elected, and India's Parliament remains dominated by men.
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Roundup: For Some Anti-Choicers, "Compromise Means Betrayal"
November 21, 2008 - 10:51am (Print)
USA Today editorializes in favor of new anti-choice strategy to reduce rather than outlaw abortion; female majority in the New Hampshire state Senate; former NARAL legal director to advise President-Elect Obama.
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She Runs
by Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check
August 25, 2008 - 11:08pm (Print)
Today at the DNC, organizations supported women politicians encouraged young women to run for public office.
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Roundup: HIV Testing for All Women, New Smears Against Obama, Women Try Again for Elected Office
August 5, 2008 - 11:48am (Print)
New recommendations on HIV testing from ACOG, smears on "infanticide" to hit Obama, and a historic number of women are making second attempts at elected office this year.
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