As the 2024 presidential election in November nears, the importance of voting is heightened and the efforts to increase voter turnout become crucial.
Voters identifying as women are key to the election, as more women than men turn out to vote. Efforts to get more women elected and also for more women to vote in the 2024 election are in full swing.
Read MoreAs a young girl of 7, A’shanti Gholar discovered C-SPAN and was hooked on watching political discussions. Now president of Emerge America, Gholar says, “I didn’t see a lot of people who look like me—women, Black or Brown people.”
Her parents were not politically minded she says, though they voted. But she got encouragement at school. “I took an 11th grade government class and the teacher brought in the candidates to come speak to the class.”
Read MoreNo victory laps just yet. A new report from The Center for American Women And Politics at Rutgers University shows a disruption of the gendered view of national politics, if not quite a victory. While the 2018 midterm elections revealed that “women candidates disrupted the (White male) status quo in American politics and challenged assumptions, and they outperformed among non-incumbents at nearly every level in both primary and general elections,” the 2020 elections are still hazy on the horizon, the report states.
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