Tom Moran at the Star Ledger interviews Representative Mikie Sherill about her early days in Congress, how her military background informs her policy-making, and what an increase in women's representation means: "What I think is so important is the effect it has across the country, on people's vision of what women in power look like. It's not a monolithic thing." For Backstory, CAWP Director Debbie Walsh spoke at length about the 2018 elections, the history of women in Congress, and the policy impacts of increased representation.

The Advocate talked to CAWP Associate Director Jean Sinzdak about a Louisiana state legislator who recently gave birth while in office, and Sinzdak told the paper, "Some of that status quo has been disrupted in the past couple of years. Once one breaks through, it makes it easier for others to follow in their footsteps." Louisiana has their legislative elections this year, so stay tuned to our Election Watch information on the state. At the federal level, ten women have given birth while serving in Congress. The first woman to have a child while holding a congressional seat was Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke in 1973. The most recent was Senator Tammy Duckworth in 2018.

Elise Stefanik's mission to increase women's presence in the GOP continues to garner attention, particularly now that candidates are beginning to come forward for the 2020 elections. In TIME, Alana Abramson profiles Stefanik and how she came to take on this project. Roll Call notices an upward trend in the share of GOP women among all potential non-incumbent women candidates for the 2020 congressional elections, though we pointed out a significant caveat to this trend on Twitter: isolating non-incumbent candidates is perhaps not fully illuminating, considering the significant decreases in GOP incumbents this year and large increases in Democratic incumbents.

In POTUS 2020 news, Kirsten Gillibrand talked to WNYC about how her electoral record makes her an ideal candidate to go up against Trump and telling them, "His kryptonite is a woman who stands up for what she believes in and doesn't back down." Vanity Fair took a look at a communications reset underway in the Kamala Harris campaign, pondering why Harris, who goes viral with congressional hearing videos on the regular, hasn't caught fire yet in the 2020 race. Lastly, Reductress offers this tongue-in-cheek evaluation of the 2020 election: "I've noticed that there's an emerging group of women who barely have to deal with any attention from men at all. I wanted that for my life, so I decided to be one of those women. And that's why I'm announcing that I'm running for president of the United States."