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Thank you to our wonderful CAWP community for another year – our 50th! – of supporting us in our mission of education and empowerment. We’d also like to take a moment to recognize the commitment and tenacity of our CAWP faculty and staff; in the past two years, CAWP has accomplished an extraordinary amount, vastly expanding our reach and resources, and that our indefatigable crew has done so during this period of anxiety, loss, and intermittent childcare is endlessly inspiring. We hope that all of you have a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday. The newsletter will return on January 18th.
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50 Years: A Retrospective
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CAWP is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a retrospective timeline, Shaping History: CAWP Through the Years, which explores our founding, growth, and evolution alongside major moments in women’s political history over the past half century. When CAWP was founded in 1971, only 2% of the members of the U.S. Congress were women: 11 women served in the House, and one woman served in the Senate. Of the 12 women serving, two were women of color; both served in the House. Today, women are 26.9% of Congress, with 120 women serving in the House and 24 in the Senate. A great deal has changed since we were founded, but a great deal remains undone — women are less than one-third of officeholders at every level of office we study. Take that fifty-year journey at Shaping History: CAWP Through the Years, and see what was happening in the wider world when we launched our cornerstone projects like Election Watch, NEW Leadership®, or Ready to Run®; watch as CAWP shaped, and was shaped by, 50 years of women’s increasing political power.
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2021 CAWP Grant Recipients Announced
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Earlier today, CAWP announced the recipients of our 2021 Research Grants. Funded research projects were identified by both internal and external reviewers as meeting one or more priorities laid out in CAWP’s request for proposals, including leading with intersectionality, expanding research focus, and/or meeting the moment. These projects were also identified as among the most promising to yield insights that can be translated into action to increase women’s political power, including effective interventions to disrupt gender and/or intersectional biases in U.S. political institutions.
“Combined, these twelve funded projects represent an investment of over $200,000 into areas of research that have historically been under-valued and under-funded,” said Debbie Walsh, CAWP director. “This investment not only illuminates the importance of this scholarship to relevant disciplines, but we are hopeful that it will also result in actionable findings to promote women’s political progress.”
The twelve funded projects are:
- Understanding Modern Gender Discrimination in U.S. Politics
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Por Mi Gente: Gender, Citizenship, and the Power of Community in Immigrants' Risky Political Participation
- Asian American Women in the Political Campaign: The Effect of Race and Gender Intersectionality on Female Voters
- Harnessing the Power of Emotion: How Latinas use Emotional Appeals in their Campaign Messages
- The Face of a Movement: Colorism and Racism in the Evaluation of Black Women Leaders
- Deepening Democratic Engagement in Select Battleground States: Moving Women of Color from Reliable Voters to Candidates
- Gender, Race, Partisanship and the Dynamics of Candidate Likability
- Too Feminine to Lead? Identifying Voter Discrimination and Violence Against AAPI Women Candidates
- Masculinity, Intersectionality, and Presidential Politics
- Masculine and Feminine Attributes: Understanding America’s Changing Conceptualization of Candidates and Parties
- Violence Against Asian American Women in Politics: Consequences for Political Candidacies, Ambition, and Representation
- When You See Me, Do You Hear Me? The Persuasive Power of Black Women
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Last week, CAWP launched a brand-new update of our website, which includes design, user experience, and functionality improvements. Considering the vast trove of information available on our website, the product of decades (five of them, we’ll remind you) of research, data, and programming, this was a herculean undertaking. With that in mind, we’d like to offer a tremendous thank you to our own Pooja Prabhakaran for shepherding this project from conception to execution to realization.
In addition to a beautiful redesign, the new website includes improved navigation for our 50 years of data and scholarship and is also linked directly to the CAWP Women Elected Officials Database, meaning our data will be even more accessible.
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Get Registered to See Yamiche Alcindor
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Next month, CAWP will host PBS and NBC journalist Yamiche Alcindor in her role as the 2021 Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women’s Political Leadership. Her lecture, Truth in Journalism: Reporting on Politics and Identity in America, will take place virtually on January 26th at 12pm ET and registration is open now! Alcindor has become a go-to voice in analyzing the most critical issues of our time, for Democrats and Republicans alike. As the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, moderator of Washington Week, and an NBC and MSNBC political contributor, Alcindor methodically unravels the steady stream of breaking news to help her audience make sense of it all. Register to attend here.
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End of an Era in New Jersey
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When the New Jersey Legislature reconvenes next month, a legendary political figure in the state will no longer be there: Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg is retiring at the end of the term. Senator Weinberg, pictured at left with the NEW Leadership® New Jersey 2016 class after giving that year's keynote address, is a long-time collaborator, supporter, and friend of CAWP, and we are sad to see her leave the legislature where she has made such an indelible mark. We are grateful for her path-blazing career and her deep commitment to gender equity in the Garden State. She leaves behind a powerful legacy, which you can learn more about, and watch her speak to NEW Leadership® students in 2016, at the Loretta Weinberg Legacy Fund page on the CAWP website. But there is also good news for New Jersey as we celebrate the upcoming ascension of the next Senate majority leader, Teresa Ruiz, who will become the first Latina and first woman of color to hold that position. Thank you, Loretta, for your amazing career and for helping build a more equitable future for us all.
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