She paved the way

The Nation reminds us of Shirley Chisholm's pioneering presidential bid in 1972 and how it set the course for a new kind of politics, including this year's campaign.

 

This year's mom-voters

Seems like a different set of moms is targeted in every presidential year. This year, according to an analysis by Professor Melissa Deckman on Presidential Gender Watch 2016, it's "security moms," reprising the 2004 Bush playbook.

Republican women's dilemma

What to do if you're a loyal Republican woman troubled by your party's presumptive presidential nominee? Michelle Cottle discusses the problem in The Atlantic.

Outrages galore

In an opinion piece on NOLA (the New Orleans Times Picayune online) Jarvis DeBerry laments the "frat house culture" evident in the Louisiana state legislature, which ranks 45 ^th out of the 50 states for its proportion of women.  Andrea Dew Steele, in a blog post in HuffPost Politics, questions the demonization of political women, using the example of Congresswoman and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Mother Jones tells us that even women on the US Supreme Court experience frequent interruptions from their male colleagues. And Pakistani women turned to social media, using #trybeatingmelightly  to express their fury at a proposal to make wife-beating legal, as reported in Mashable.

Meet the expert - CAWP's Susan Carroll

NJ Spotlight focuses on CAWP senior scholar Susan Carroll, a professor of political science at Rutgers and one of the nation's foremost experts on women's political participation.