Women Are Running For Office In Record Numbers

“Women have seen what happens when rooms full of men make decisions on our behalf”

Caitlin Moscatello: I started reporting the book back in February 2017, so right on the heels of the 2016 election. It was clear that the public temperature had changed — women were channeling their anger about an impending Trump administration by pouring money into organizations like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, and millions took to the streets for the Women’s March. But what I was most interested in was, what would be the lasting action? Right around that time, there were rumblings that groups that train and support female candidates were being inundated with applicants. I started reaching out to women considering running, and after each call, I would get off the phone feeling energized and hopeful. I had no idea who would actually run, much less win — but I felt in my gut that this was a story worth telling. And then, in the two years I spent reporting, the book became about something much bigger. It became about women fighting back, and then also making history.

A longstanding barrier that has kept women from running is that they too often think they aren’t qualified enough. But watching Donald Trump, a man with no political qualifications and who many Americans knew as a reality TV star, win the presidency flipped a…

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