*THIS TALK IS OPEN TO WOMEN OF ALL AGES.
What would the world look like if more women held political power?
From Senators Barbara Boxer and Elizabeth Warren to the Notorious RBG, herself, we’ve been inspired by the powerful women in politics who have graced our stage.
Over the course of the last 30 years alone, the number of women in Congress has more than tripled. Yet, there’s still a long way to go. The U.S. still ranks 90th worldwide in the percentage of women serving in the national legislature. Three-quarters of statewide elected officials and state legislators are men. Men occupy the governor’s mansion in 44 of the 50 states, and they run City Hall in 87 of the 100 largest cities across the country.
On Tuesday, May 9 at 7:00 pm, Heather Moran, Sixth & I’s Executive Director, speaks with Dr. Jennifer Lawless, Director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University, about why more women don’t run for office and how society could be affected if they did.
Lawless is a professor of government at American University. Her research focuses on representation, political ambition, and gender in the electoral process. She is the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office and the co-author of Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Campaigns in a Polarized Era, Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics, and It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office.
