January 17, 2023

Filing deadlines for candidacies in New Jersey’s 2023 elections are coming up on March 27th. Also in March? CAWP’s flagship Ready to Run® campaign training program in New Jersey will return in person March 17th and 18th on Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s campus. Our unique two-track system is tailored to both people who are preparing to launch a political campaign and those who just want to deepen their political engagement. Ready to Run® New Jersey 2023 sessions include:

• ELLA Wins (Elections & Leadership Latina Academy)
• Rising Stars: Educating Asian American Women for Politics
• Run Sister Run: Women of the African Diaspora Changing the Political Landscape
• Digital Strategies for Candidates, Campaigns, and Advocates
• Strategic Campaign Communications
• Launching Your Campaign
• Finding Your Political Voice and Influence – Elected or Not
• Navigating New Jersey’s Political Parties for Candidates
• Legislative Advocacy
• Fundraising for Success

Learn more about the agenda and presenters here. Early-bird registration rates are still active through February 10th.

Is there a college student in your life eager to explore their public leadership potential? Applications are now open for our Susan N. Wilson NEW Leadership® New Jersey 2023 cohort! The 2023 program will take place June 8-13, 2023 at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This non-partisan, six-day residential program will give students the opportunity to meet women leaders, learn about women’s participation in American politics, and develop and practice leadership skills through panel discussions, workshops, and projects.

NEW Leadership® New Jersey is open to students at all higher education institutions in New Jersey, and eligible applicants must be registered for the 2022-2023 academic year in either a two-year institution or be a rising junior or senior at a four-year institution. CAWP is committed to including students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic and racial identities in each NEW Leadership® program.

NEW Leadership® is our program devoted to helping young people deepen their political engagement and get involved in the fight to advance women’s leadership. It is CAWP’s investment in future generations of leaders.

Ahead of the swearing-in of the 118th Congress, CAWP released a report about women serving in the new Congress and in the 2022 midterms elections. There are currently a record 149 (106D, 42R, 1Ind) women serving in Congress, and new milestones have also been reached for women by party status and race and ethnicity. Find all the records and numbers in this new report, Women in Election 2022: Marking Midterm Progress.

In addition to all the data on women serving in the 118th Congress, as well as CAWP candidate and nominee numbers, this report also contains deeper analysis including:

• Historical comparisons to previous and record cycles, particularly 2018 and 2020.
• Win rates for candidates by gender, party, incumbency status, and chamber.
• Information about departing incumbents and non-incumbent winners.
• Race and ethnicity data on women candidates, nominees, and officeholders over time and by party and chamber.
• Changes in women’s representation in each state’s congressional delegation as a result of the 2022 election.
• Analysis of general-election contests by nominee gender (man vs. man, woman vs. woman, mixed-gender).

Additional sections of this report analyzing women’s electoral success in 2022 and 2023 officeholding at the gubernatorial, statewide elective executive, and state legislative levels will be released when all new officeholders at those levels have been sworn in nationwide. Read the full report on women in Congress here.

CAWP has decades of experience as the leading source of current data about women’s political participation in the United States and in offering imaginative programs aimed at advancing women’s political leadership. Here’s your chance to be part of the team that makes these things happen. CAWP is currently hiring for the following positions:

Program Coordinator The program coordinator works collaboratively to innovate and drive the development, implementation, and evaluation of a range of public programs, special projects, and outreach efforts — like our Ready to Run® and NEW Leadership® programs. The person in this position is responsible for expanding our target audience, providing focused/appropriate educational opportunities, and developing relationships and managing partnerships with outside organizations to provide joint programs.

Research Project Assistant The research project assistant will join CAWP’s peerless data team that tracks women as candidates and officeholders. The person in this position will also assist in the expansion of our data services work, including widening the scope of current data projects as well as growing new areas of data collection, such as additional levels of office for elected officeholders and expanded candidate coverage. This expansion will allow CAWP to provide new measures of women’s political participation in the United States and provide a backbone of data to bolster research and scholarship in the field of women’s political participation.

Learn more and submit applications here and here.