September 27, 2022

CAWP Publishes Analysis of Nominees Ahead of General Election



Earlier today, we published a detailed analysis of women major-party general election nominees for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, governor, and state legislatures, including data on women candidates by party and by race and ethnicity. The analysis explores potential milestones in election 2022 and puts the 2022 midterms into broader context with comparisons to previous election years and an examination of women nominees as a percentage of all major-party nominees. It also includes a look ahead at women’s representation in 2023.

Here are some key data points on women nominees in 2022:

• 20 (13D, 7R) women are nominees for the U.S. Senate. This is not a record overall or for either party.
• 258 (177D, 81R) women are nominees for the U.S. House. This is not a record overall or for either party.
• 25 (16D, 9R) women are nominees for governor. This is a new record overall, as well as new records for Democratic women and for Republican women.
• 3,552 (2,272D, 1,262, 17NP, 1I) women are nominees for state legislatures. This is a new record overall, as well as a new record for Republican women.
•  Latina/Hispanic women have achieved record highs as nominees for the U.S. House (37 [20D, 17R]) in 2022.
• Black women have achieved record highs as nominees for the U.S. Senate (4 [4D]) and governor (3 [3D]) in 2022.

Read the full analysis at CAWP’s Election Watch.

Last week, we released a new CAWP Research Grant Brief, Gender and Race Differences in Mayors’ Experiences of Violence, that points to alarming levels of violence, harassment, and threats against American mayors and shows that overlapping marginalized identities affect these experiences in significant ways. This brief was produced by CAWP Grant recipients Rebekah Herrick, Sue Thomas, Heidi Gerbracht, and Emily Miota. Here are some of their key findings:

• Among all mayors, more than 90% reported experiencing psychological violence at least once during their tenure in office, almost one quarter of mayors reported at least one threat while in office, and slightly more than 15% suffered physical violence at least once while serving as mayor.
• Non-Hispanic white women reported more psychological violence than men.
• Women of color experienced more threats than other groups.
• Women faced more gendered violence than men.
• Women and men of color experienced more racial violence than non-Hispanic white men and women mayors.
• Women faced more sexualized violence than men.
• 44.3% of non-Hispanic white women and 31% of women of color have considered leaving office because of hostile experiences, compared to 30.2% of non-Hispanic white men and 20% of men of color.

Read the full brief here.

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Our Ready to Run® partners at the University of Scranton's Center for Ethics & Excellence in Public Service will be hosting Ready to Run® Northeast Pennsylvania this coming Saturday, October 1st on the University of Scranton campus. This year’s programs include sessions on communications, barriers women face, and the difference they make in office. Find out more and register to attend here. Learn about all of CAWP’s Ready to Run® network partners, as well as the flagship Ready to Run® program in New Jersey, on our Ready to Run® page.

CAWP is seeking to hire an associate or full professor in a joint position with the Rutgers Department of Political Science. Candidates should be well-established in the field of women and politics and have a record of research and publications in this field. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work addresses the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity. 

The tenure home for this position will be in the Department of Political Science; they will also be a scholar at CAWP and will be expected to contribute to the development of CAWP’s research agenda, participate in ongoing CAWP projects, and play a public role translating CAWP research and data for a broad public audience.

Learn more about the position and apply here.

Election Day is fast approaching and CAWP and WNYC’s The Takeaway is delving further into all-woman general election contests in election 2022. In recent weeks, the team at The Takeaway has covered the election in California’s 37th congressional district, which features an all-woman contest between two Black women of the same party, as well as the race for the Arizona governorship between current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and former local television anchor and election conspiracist Kari Lake. Check out the full She-lection series and follow for new episodes here.