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EMILY's List, the venerable group dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women, held a briefing to release data on how generic women candidates might fare and to urge pollsters to poll more women candidates than just Hillary Clinton as they consider potential 2016 presidential candidates. "Battleground voters are ready for a woman president, and the country is, too," the group announced in presenting their data,

As President Barack Obama’s second term gets underway, speculation is already running rampant over who will run next. Will our next president be a woman? It’s an important question, but one that college students all over the country have already answered with a resounding yes.

In the two-year cycle of the political calendar, it is candidate-recruitment season—the time when Washington operatives fan out across the country to size up the political horseflesh.

 Even in the new millennium, it remains true that few women aspire — let alone actually become a candidate — to run for elected office.  That’s unfortunate because it means the bodies responsible for solving our most pressing problems are missing the diverse voices needed for robust debate and policymaking.

In 2013 men still earn disproportionally more than women, on average 30% more. Men also hold the award for securing the most senior leadership posts in both business and politics. According to a 2013 report by from Center for American Women and Politics, women hold 18% of

Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics, who pulled her country back from 35 years of left-wing government, led it to victory in the Falklands war and helped guide the United States and the Soviet Union through the cold war’s difficult last years, died on Monday. She was 87.

 As they vie for the highest jobs, it's the uncomfortable question that can't be ignored. For about as long as women have been running for office, people who care about women’s lot have wondered whether one at the top would improve life for the rest of us. And last week’s skirmish in the New York City mayoral race was an object lesson.

Hillary Rodham Clinton made her public debut in her new role as prospective presidential candidate on Tuesday night by returning to the issue that has animated her long career on the national stage — the empowerment of women around the globe.