Monday, March 19, 2018

How gender is shaping 2018 midterms

BY BARBARA LEE AND DEBBIE WALSH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 


The 2018 primary season is officially underway, and that means gender is already shaping campaigns and media coverage. Among the top headlines following the nation’s first primary in Texas was that more than half of the 53 women running for Congress won nominations or qualified for runoffs. In several races, women will face off against each other.
With or without a woman on the ballot, gender dynamics have always played an important, if complicated, role in electoral politics. In 2015, we launched a groundbreaking project to illuminate and track the influence of gender during an unprecedented presidential campaign. We’ve just launched a new project, Gender Watch 2018, to provide expert analysis and perspective on gender in the national midterm elections.

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http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/378957-how-gender-is-shaping-2018-midterms

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