United States of America

How Instagram is failing women and public officials

New research by CCDH shows that Instagram failed to act on 93% of the abusive comments targeting high-profile US women politicians we reported, including death and rape threats.

The number of women running for the House and Senate has dropped, including a record number of incumbent women not running for reelection.

Gender shouldn't matter when choosing a president — but after nearly 250 years of American democracy and zero women presidents, it clearly has.

Executive Summary

There are too many accomplished women in the democracy reform movement whose voices go unheard—which perpetuates misrepresentation in U.S.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to University of Houston's Mirya Holman about why women in political leadership tend to be referred to by their first names more often than their male counterparts.