Weekend Studying on Girls’s Illustration is a compilation of tales about ladies’s illustration in politics, on boards, in sports activities and leisure, in judicial workplaces and within the non-public sector within the U.S. and around the globe—with slightly gardening and goodwill blended in for refreshment!
This week’s Weekend Studying is designed to supply an replace on our work as we have fun our fifth anniversary as an unbiased, nonprofit, nonpartisan group.
RepresentWomen (then Representation2020) began as a undertaking of FairVote in 2013. Illustration 2020 was based to analysis the perfect practices to handle the boundaries ladies face in politics as candidates and elected officers in an effort to advance ladies’s illustration and management.
In 2018, Representation2020 turned RepresentWomen, an unbiased research-based group led by Cynthia Richie Terrell. We secured a multi-year grant from Pivotal Ventures in 2019, labored with many passionate and proficient interns, and employed our first employees inside a yr.
Over time, we now have expanded to 12 employees and 4 departments (analysis, partnerships, communications and growth), hosted fantastic fellows from the U.S. State Division’s IREX program and labored with over 100 hundred interns! We’re delighted with how far we now have come and might’t wait to proceed rising as we work for a really consultant democracy. Thanks for following our journey and on your beneficiant help.
Revelations From Analysis: Upcoming Initiatives and Reviews
RepresentWomen’s analysis crew is the group’s hub for information constructing, knowledge gathering and evaluation concerning the methods boundaries and options to gender-balanced governance. Our crew produces unique analysis specializing in systems-level methods to extend ladies’s illustration in politics in any respect ranges of presidency in all 50 states.
As we enter the final quarter of 2023, a number of of our most vital initiatives, such because the 2023 Gender Parity Index (GPI), have already been revealed. Nevertheless, we now have a number of upcoming releases. These embody state-specific case research that make the most of our GPI findings, a global evaluation of nations with damaged data concerning ladies’s illustration in 2021 and 2022, and a memo on the significance of proportional ranked-choice voting and its affect on electing ladies.
Internally, we work to create assets that our counterparts in communications and partnerships can use to share our findings and help the general actions of ladies’s rights and electoral reform. Our upcoming initiatives exemplify our emphasis on information constructing as we dig deeper into some fascinating findings which have come up in previous stories and the significance of our worldwide analysis. This additional analysis permits us to contextualize the USA as ladies in lots of different international locations see a lot better illustration, significantly beneath proportional illustration voting methods.
Catch Up With Comms! Updates From our Communications Division
RepresentWomen’s communications division is tasked with spreading consciousness of our group. We work intently with the analysis, partnerships and growth departments and supply help as wanted, significantly in creating comprehensible and shareable content material. We’ve been curating and creating partaking social media content material that highlights our newest report releases and promotes the upcoming American Democracy Summit. Our largest undertaking for this quarter is fine-tuning the small print of our 2024 planner. As we proceed spotlighting impactful feminine management, we’re excited to organize for our upcoming interview with Lindsey Williams Drath, the CEO of Ahead Occasion, whose insights will characteristic prominently in our 2024 planner.
Communications can be answerable for managing this sequence: Weekend Studying on Girls’s Illustration. This quarter, we are going to proceed to draft and edit the weblog each week. Our Weekend Studying is an integral a part of RepresentWomen as a result of it’s an outlet to make clear necessary points, uplift analysis partnerships, and deepen the dialog about methods methods like ranked-choice voting that elect extra ladies to workplace. Thanks to Ms. journal and digital editor Roxy Szal for creating an excellent bigger platform for the Weekend Studying!
The communications division’s important precedence is growing RepresentWomen’s affect and accessibility. Accessibility is a core worth that RepresentWomen holds as a result of it ties in intently with inclusion. Simply as we imagine in eradicating boundaries to electing ladies, we imagine in eradicating boundaries to partaking with our work. By creating an accessible understanding of RepresentWomen’s analysis and initiatives, we invite extra folks to hitch the work for a good democracy.
All Aboard the Associate-Ship
We’re the partnerships and outreach division, the “strategic engagement” lever of the RepresentWomen technique. Which means that it’s our job to take the sensible work of the analysis division and get it into the fingers that matter, whether or not that’s by way of one-on-one conversations with decision-makers, convening ladies leaders, or giving trainings on methods methods to pipeline organizations.
The partnerships and outreach division focuses on the lengthy recreation of relationship and belief constructing for sustainable affect. Take a look at our crew photograph to see who you’re greeted with once you set sail on the RW SS Associate-Ship.
We now have a busy fall within the partnerships and outreach division as we proceed to work with our accomplice organizations, elected officers, allies, and key stakeholders within the development of ladies’s political energy. This quarter, we sit up for a variety of collaborative initiatives over the following a number of weeks, together with:
- Continuation of ongoing conferences with numerous nationwide and state organizations for continued engagement and figuring out alternatives for brand new methods to accomplice collectively.
- Making ready for the launch of the Girls’s Energy Collaborative—the one national-level physique that mixes ladies’s illustration organizations and electoral reform organizations in help of a extra gender-balanced democracy.
- Preparation for RepresentUs’ American Democracy Summit (ADS)—the entire partnerships crew shall be in attendance! We’re excited to be talking on a number of panels, host a contented hour and a technique breakfast, and have a chance to satisfy with companions and allies at our RepresentWomen sales space. We sit up for studying extra about greatest practices for growing ladies’s illustration at each degree of presidency.
By means of the creation of our Girls’s Energy Collaborative, which can equip members with our community and assets, we are going to create a extra receptive setting for systemic options and the twin-track method (i.e., combining the ability of constructing a pipeline of ladies candidates with methods methods that take away pipeline blockages).
Our continued conferences with our terrific companions and allies and the relationships we create and deepen at ADS contribute to our objective of creating a extra sturdy community of stakeholders, particularly ladies, combating for methods change and maximizing the twin-track method.
With 80-degree days in D.C. this week, we’re dreaming of fall climate and actions. Rank your favourite fall actions!
Our quarter three employees retreat was this week! It was beautiful to see all of the RepresentWomen crew in a single place. Along with reviewing targets and plans for quarter 4, we had a strong session with Rene Redwood, who led us in an unimaginable dialog about our values as a corporation and our dedication to, and follow of, variety, inclusion and belonging. Rene is pictured with the crew under, together with a couple of different photos from our celebratory week.
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