January 31, 2023

Ahead of our in-person Ready to Run® campaign training program in March, Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners will join us for a special virtual training event. This free session will take place on February 2nd

at 1:00 pm ET. One of the nation's leading pollsters, Lake will offer key advice for women candidates to utilize in their own campaigns. She will provide skill-building information around public opinion research on women candidates, including key findings on how women candidates are perceived during times of crisis, the advantages and disadvantages facing women running for office, the likeability vs. qualifications conundrum, and messages that are convincing to voters to support women candidates. She'll also discuss the support that women need and how to respond to sexist media coverage. 

Want more? Our 2023 Ready to Run® New Jersey campaign training event will happen in-person on March 17-18th on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University. Learn about the agenda, schedule, and presenters and get registered here.

Last week, CAWP released part two of its report on women in the 2022 midterms, Women in Election 2022: Marking Midterm Progress, focusing on women in statewide elective executive offices. While women now hold 12 governorships, breaking a record first set nearly two decades ago, the number of women serving in all statewide offices fell short of the record. CAWP’s report on women serving in statewide elective executive offices in 2023, and their candidacies for these offices in 2022, goes beyond the raw numbers, offering deeper analysis like:

• Historical comparisons to previous and record cycles, particularly 2018 and 2020.
• Race and ethnicity data on women candidates, nominees, and officeholders over time and by party.
• Analysis of general-election contests by nominee gender (man vs. man, woman vs. woman, mixed-gender).
• Women as a percentage of all candidates, nominees, and election winners.
• Win rates for candidates by gender, party, and incumbency status.
• State-by-state information about changes in women’s representation in statewide elective executive offices and the history of women governors.

Read part two of the report here. 

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

We are now recruiting for our 2023 Susan N. Wilson NEW Leadership® New Jersey cohort! The 2023 program will take place June 8-13 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.

CAWP is the leading source for data, scholarship, and analysis about women’s place in American politics, and our work is a vital resource for academics, activists, political practitioners, and the media. Be a part of the team that makes that happen.

CAWP is currently hiring for a 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.

Find out more about the position and submit an application here.