March 19, 2024

Last week, CAWP launched a brand-new project in our roster of Election Watch resources. Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024 expands upon the CAWP Women, Money, and Politics Series by tracking gender and campaign finance throughout a live election for the first time. Part one of our phased rollout, which tracks congressional fundraising recipient data in 10 key states (AZ, CO, GA, FL, MA, MI, NM, OH, PA, WA), is live now; use this new data to track average fundraising totals, self-financing, and small dollar contributions in congressional races in our key states.

Future phases in Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024 will explore donor data, state races in our key states, and congressional fundraising in all fifty states. This data, powered in part by OpenSecrets, is brought to life through interactive data visualizations by Graphicacy. Explore this new resource, which allows users to download data visualizations as image files and share with their networks, at the Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024 site .

Applications for Susan N. Wilson NEW Leadership® New Jersey 2024 will now be accepted until Monday, April 15th! NEW Leadership® is CAWP’s women’s leadership program for college students. At this six-day residential program, students will learn about women in government, practice leadership skills, learn the process of legislative advocacy, and network with powerful women in government, advocacy, and politics.

NEW Leadership® New Jersey is open to students at all higher education institutions in New Jersey. Eligible applicants must be registered for the 2023-2024 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, sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic and racial backgrounds in each NEW Leadership® program. We strongly encourage students of color, non-traditional students, students who may be gender non-conforming, nonbinary, or transgender and students majoring in any field to apply.

CAWP is now hiring a research operations manager to join our growing research and data team. CAWP regularly releases cutting-edge research on women’s role in American politics as well as our unmatched collection of data on women as political candidates and officeholders. This new position will directly supervise and promote professional development among members of the research team, provide strategic support and expertise in research agenda and project planning and development, liaise with all personnel essential to research execution and distribution, and represent CAWP in research collaborations. They will also provide research support as needed.

Learn more about this exciting position and apply today at the Rutgers University jobs portal.

Primary elections for congressional and state offices were held recently in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas, alongside additional contests in the presidential primaries, and CAWP has been tracking results for women candidates in these races.

• On March 6th, Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign. In the course of this presidential primary, she became the first woman to win a Republican presidential nominating contest when she won the Washington, D.C. primary and the first woman to win a state Republican presidential primary when she won in Vermont. With 94 delegates earned thus far, Haley has earned the most delegates through nominating contests of any Republican woman in history, though final delegate votes will be determined at the Republican convention.
• For the first time in 32 years, California will not be represented by at least one woman in the U.S. Senate, as both candidates who advanced in California’s top-two primary for Senate are men. California is also the first state to have been represented by two women in the Senate.
• Mississippi is one of two states that has never sent a woman to the U.S. House of Representatives. That is unlikely to change as a result of the 2024 election. One woman – Dianne Black (D) – advanced to the general election for the U.S. House in Mississippi, but she will run as a Democratic challenger for a seat strongly favoring the Republican incumbent.
• Arkansas, which is currently represented by zero women in Congress, will likely see no change for women’s representation in its congressional delegation. Both women nominees in Arkansas congressional races are challengers to incumbents who are strongly favored to win re-election.



For more information about women in recent primary elections, visit CAWP’s Election Results and Analysis page.

CAWP’s Ruth B. Mandel Awards honor our founding co-director and her belief in the power of scholarship to transform our understanding of women’s political power and feed a movement of change. These awards support dissertation research on women, gender, and U.S. politics. Eligible recipients include advanced doctoral students from any relevant discipline at U.S.-based institutions who have successfully defended their dissertation proposal. CAWP awards four Ruth B. Mandel Awards annually with the expectation that at least one award will be designated for a Rutgers University student. We encourage applications from scholars who are traditionally underrepresented in the academy. Applications for Mandel awards are due by May 15th, 2024; learn more and submit an application here.