“In planning and launching a gubernatorial race, it’s an incredible advantage to know the unique challenges that women have faced in past elections. Cracking the Code will help women candidates in the current cycle know where they’ll be challenged and how to win.” – Governor Jennifer Granholm “Campaigns are full of uncertainties, and the key […]
On September 11, everything changed. Plans. Habits. Priorities. Lifelong assumptions were opened to re-evaluation. Only today are we fully realizing the impact the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC, have had on our thinking. What, then, is the effect of 9/11 on women’s candidacies for public office, we wondered? How will women fare […]
Only 18. In the 225-year history of the United States only 18 women have served as governor. In 2001, only four women occupy the top job – in New Hampshire, Montana, Delaware and Arizona. While the numbers of women in state legislatures continued to grow in the 1990s and the numbers of women serving in the […]