By Judith Warner Many women don’t get any formal encouragement whatsoever. “Never. Never. Never. Never. Never,” was Gillibrand’s reply when I asked if party rainmakers had ever approached her about running for office once she had made her interest clear. She’s not alone. In 2014, [...]

By Sarah Kliff and Soo Oh Overall, the American legislature is disproportionately dominated by men. And this isn’t the case when you look at America’s peer countries. In Nordic countries like Finland and Sweden, women make up just over 40 percent of the legislature. And [...]

This was not the vision that Sharon Day, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, had in mind two months after the November 2014 elections. That’s when I saw her speak on a panel discussion, pointedly held at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters, as a group [...]

By Amrith Ramkumar “If we can’t ameliorate these sex differences in compensation, we are going to have a much harder time trying to attract really qualified female physicians to go into specialties where we need them most,” Blumenthal said. A pay gap between men and [...]

By Adrienne LaFrance Lisa Seacat DeLuca is the most prolific inventor in IBM history. She also happens to be a woman, a detail that’s notable perhaps only because of the outsized number of men who hold patents in the United States. DeLuca, who’s focused on [...]