Number of women running for office declines nationally, Rutgers center says
Source: New Jersey Monitor
While the number of women running for federal office has waned nationally, New Jersey is seeing more women run this election cycle, including a Latina who was one of just four in the country to launch a campaign for Senate, according to a Rutgers University-based political center.
After voters elected women to Congress in record-breaking numbers in the last three election cycles, the number of women candidates is now down in nearly every category, staff members of the Center for American Women and Politics told reporters Tuesday.
Debbie Walsh, the center’s director, said while 2024 won’t be a record-setting year, there are several milestones on the horizon for women. She called it “incredibly prescient” to speak about women in politics this week in light of the news that Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough support from Democratic delegates that she will likely win the Democratic Party nomination for president next month.
Walsh noted Harris would be the first Black woman and first Asian-American person to win a major party’s nomination for president.
“Should she go on to win in November, she will shatter what Hillary Clinton coined the highest, hardest glass ceiling in American politics. Our research and programming has long been oriented towards changing the perception of power, and this transformative moment would forever alter how Americans view leadership in politics,” she said.
Read here the full article published by the New Jersey Monitor on 25 July 2024.
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While the number of women running for federal office has waned nationally, New Jersey is seeing more women run this election cycle, including a Latina who was one of just four in the country to launch a campaign for Senate, according to a Rutgers University-based political center.
After voters elected women to Congress in record-breaking numbers in the last three election cycles, the number of women candidates is now down in nearly every category, staff members of the Center for American Women and Politics told reporters Tuesday.
Debbie Walsh, the center’s director, said while 2024 won’t be a record-setting year, there are several milestones on the horizon for women. She called it “incredibly prescient” to speak about women in politics this week in light of the news that Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough support from Democratic delegates that she will likely win the Democratic Party nomination for president next month.
Walsh noted Harris would be the first Black woman and first Asian-American person to win a major party’s nomination for president.
“Should she go on to win in November, she will shatter what Hillary Clinton coined the highest, hardest glass ceiling in American politics. Our research and programming has long been oriented towards changing the perception of power, and this transformative moment would forever alter how Americans view leadership in politics,” she said.
Read here the full article published by the New Jersey Monitor on 25 July 2024.
Image by New Jersey Monitor