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Emily’s List has seen an “unprecedented” amount of women interested in running …
WOMEN
Donald Trump’s Presidency Has Inspired 11,000 Women To Run For Office
“Over ten thousand women isn’t a ripple — it’s a wave,” Emily’s List president Stephanie Schriock said.
Emily’s List
has seen an “unprecedented” amount of women interested in running for
political office, the group’s president Stephanie Schriock told The Washington Post on Friday for a story about Democrats challenging Republicans in traditionally red districts during the midterm elections.
“During
the 2016 cycle, her group spoke with about 900 women interested in
running for school board, state legislature or Congress,” WaPo’s Ed
O’Keefe and Mike DeBonis wrote. “This year, they’ve heard from more than
11,000 women in all 50 states — with a few dozen seriously considering
House races, she said.”
In December, The Huffington Post’s Emma Gray reported that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
loss in the 2016 presidential election had motivated women across the
country to get more involved with the political process. At the
time, Emily’s List told HuffPost that the organization raised $770,000
since election day, with more than one-third of those donations coming
from new donors.
Since its founding 30 years ago, Emily’s List says it has helped elect more
than 100 Democratic women to the House of Representatives, 23 to the
Senate, 12 to governors’ seats, and hundreds more to state and local
office.
While research
demonstrates that women have the same chance of getting elected as men
do, far fewer women run for public office. Research has shown that the
reason for that disparity ranges from men being more likely to be recruited for the job, to an ambition gap that’s well established by the time women leave college. Research also says another main barrier
to women running for office is their role as the primary person
responsible for the majority of child care and households tasks.
Less than one month before the general election, The New York Times reported
that the number of women serving in office stalled in the 1990s, and
the gender gap did not show signs of tightening in the future.
But it seems that momentum has kept up if not surged since Clinton’s 2016 run and President Donald Trump took office.
“Some
of [the increase in interest] is absolutely a reaction to President
Trump and his policies,” Jean Sinzdak, of the Center for American Women
and Politics at Rutgers University, told NPR in February. “For others, it is Hillary Clinton’s loss.”
Other
organizations that specialize in training women to run for political
office say they’ve also seen an increase in participants. She Should Run
told Slate in January that 6,000 women had contacted them since the 2016 election.
“Over ten thousand women isn’t a ripple — it’s a wave,” Shriock said last month. “Republicans everywhere should sit up and take notice — because this is only the beginning.”
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