We are excited to announce that WPLN will be bringing together women like you from across the country for a first-of-its-kind National Summit. Registration opens today, so get your tickets and spread the word!
We hope you join us in New Orleans and bring another woman leader in your life to join you for our two-day event. The program will feature networking, awards, policy panels, and three tracks designed to develop your leadership potential -- wherever you are on your political journey. Spouses and children will also be offered options for programming throughout the event.
We look forward to seeing you this February! Reach out with any questions on the program, or to become an event sponsor.
Onward,
Larissa
WPLN President and Co-Founder
Now that WPLN has announced our inaugural 2022 National Summit, we hope you'll join us in New Orleans on February 4 and 5. Our summit is designed for all women, so we are offering three training tracks for attendees to choose from: 1) Current or future candidates, 2) current elected or appointed officeholders, and 3) women and others working to grow and sustain the network. And because we know running for office is a team effort, we will also provide special programming for those who may be undertaking this campaign alongside their partner or mother, including childcare! Plus, Friends of WPLN and Rankin Circle Members will have access to exclusive discounts for tickets. Click here for more details.
We’re teaming up with Snapchat to help empower the next generation of local leadership! Snapchat’s new Run for Office tool will help you find local elected positions that YOU can run for.
WPLN has teamed up with Snapchat to help young people run for office! Snapchat’s new #RunforOffice tool makes it easy to find positions in your community based on the issues you care about. We hope our partnership changes the idea of who can be in office -- that no matter who you are, where you come from, you can make a difference in your community. Get started by opening Snapchat or clicking here.
The Ascend Fund recently announced that it's investing in 13 organizations in 3 states -- Michigan, Mississippi, and Washington -- to achieve gender parity in state legislatures. Congratulations to WPLN state training partner She Holds the Keyfor being selected! Learn more.
POLITICO | "There are just 9 female governors. Both parties want change.": "The struggle across parties for women to rise to the top within states speaks to the inherent bias against women that persists in politics. Research shows that women have to be more likeable, raise more money and generally work harder than their male counterparts in order to win. That’s why both the Democratic and Republican parties have vowed to invest more money and resources into supporting women gunning for governor in 2022. But their strategies differ." Read more.
19th NEWS | "'It’s like no one is looking for us': How can states help when women of color go missing?":"Though officials have begun allocating more resources for search and awareness, public perception and popular narratives still leave many women invisible." Read more.
BLOOMBERG | "More women are considering scaling back at work than a year ago": "Pandemic burnout is nipping at the slow, but steady, progress women have made up and down the corporate ladder over the last five years, a McKinsey & Co. report conducted in partnership with LeanIn.Org released Monday finds. In an annual survey of 65,000 workers across 423 organizations, one-third of women said they were considering scaling back their careers or leaving the workforce altogether. That figure jumped almost 10 percentage points from the beginning months of the pandemic. Women, the survey found, were more likely to report experiencing burnout than men — a gap that’s widened in the last year, too." Read more.
THE ATLANTIC | "The Gender Researcher’s Guide to an Equal Marriage": "The experts’ knowledge of the research helps them actively resist common patterns. The scholars I interviewed talked about trying not to replicate in their own home the findings that fathers spend more time with boys than with girls, that mothers are more likely to involve their daughters in housework than their sons, and that mothers tend to have less leisure time than fathers. Research also drew their attention to how dividing housework and child care fairly isn’t just good in and of itself, but can make their family happier." Read more.
19th NEWS | "Britney Spears is almost free. What does this mean for disability rights?": "[Britney] Spears’s case has brought unprecedented attention to the issue of conservatorship. Now disability rights advocates are wondering what comes next." Read more.
According to new research, girls are socialized early in life to perceive politics as a male-dominated space -- and this perception only grows as they get older. In a 19th News article titled "Girls are being socialized to lose political ambition — and it starts younger than we realized," reporter Barbara Rodriguez spoke with one of the study's authors, Mirya R. Holman of Tulane University.
"[Asking children to draw pictures of political leaders] represent for us a really clear example of this idea of, you can’t be what you can’t see. As girls learn more and more about the political world, and they learn more and more about who occupies the political world and who has occupied the political world, they see themselves less and less in it," said Holman. "So, as children age, boys just go along and they draw mostly pictures of men, no matter what their age. But girls increasingly draw images of men as they learn more about the political system. So as their political knowledge grows, they’re more likely to see politics as a space that’s dominated by men."
READING | Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday by Stacey Hanke:While this book is from 2017, its advice is timeless. WPLN Board Member Amy Whited says, "If you need a practical read on improving your influence during everyday interactions, Stacey Hanke's Influence Redefined is a go for me. ... I find myself reaching for this book even years later." Learn more.
WATCHING | Maid, a Netflix miniseries about a young single mother trying to break out of the cycles of poverty and abuse: This series premiered October 1 and has received widespread acclaim: Vulture's Jen Chaney says that Maid "is a stressful but refreshingly honest portrait of poverty," and according to IndieWire's Kristen Lopez, "We need more stories like this and, hands down, Maid deserves all the acclaim it gets."Learn more.
LISTENING TO | Women Vs. Hollywood podcast hosted by journalist Helen O’Hara: This podcast dives into the film industry's treatment of women, from the #MeToo movement, to pay disparity, to women's representation on screen and behind the camera.Learn more.
EXCITED FOR | WPLN's inaugural summit in New Orleans in February 2022: If we haven't made it clear by now, we're extremely excited about our inaugural summit, and we hope you'll join us in the Big Easy for it! Learn more.
This month, we're celebrating the birthdays of the following women trailblazers and leaders:
Ruth Cheney Streeter, the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve and first woman to attain the rank of major in the U.S. Marine Corps (October 2)
Lucy Tayiah Eads, Native American who was the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Kaw Nation (October 4)
Helen Churchill Candee, feminist and writer (October 5)
Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist (October 6)
Florence B. Seibert, biochemist whose work enabled the creation of a reliable test for tuberculosis (October 6)
Harriet Boyd Hawes, archaeologist (October 11)
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady who later served as the United States delegate to the United Nations General Assembly (October 11)
Marion Donovan, inventor who invented the first waterproof diaper (October 15)
Lucy Stanton, abolitionist and the first Black American woman to complete a four-year college course (October 16)
Annie Smith Peck, mountaineer (October 19)
Bertha Knight Landes, politician who served as mayor of Seattle, making her the first woman mayor of a major American city (October 19)
Kamala Harris, politician who represented California in the U.S. Senate and became the first woman vice president of the U.S. (October 20)
Enolia McMillan, first woman president of the NAACP (October 20)
Gertrude Ederle, Olympic swimmer (October 23)
Marjorie Joyner, inventor and businesswoman who was the first Black American woman to patent a permanent hair-wave machine (October 24)
Katharine Byron, member of Congress and the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland (October 25)
Helen Blanchard, inventor whose patents included a pencil sharpener and a hat sewing machine (October 25)
Henrietta Hill Swope, astronomer (October 26)
Hillary Clinton, First Lady who later represented New York in the Senate, served as United States Secretary of State, and ran for president (October 26)
Dolores Moore, baseball player who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (October 27)
Margaret Rousseau, chemical engineer who was the first woman member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (October 27)
Edith Head, costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (October 28)
Natalie Sleeth, composer and pianist (October 29)
Marie van Brittan Brown, nurse and inventor who was one of the co-inventors of the home security system (October 30)
Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts (October 31)
OCTOBER 27 | ReflectUS State Network: Use the 19th: Join ReflectUSState Network partners for a discussion on the importance of women and voting in every election and how we influence strong democracy! Learn more.
OCTOBER 28 | Deadline for Pink Granite Foundation mentorship program: Apply for Pink Granite Foundation's first ever mentorship program! Submit your application by October 28. Learn more.
OCTOBER 28 and 30 and NOVEMBER 2 | Louisiana Women Lead "LEADing the Way" training series: Join our Louisiana training partner Louisiana Women Lead for their training series on fundraising, public speaking, and how to launch your campaign. Learn more.
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Women’s Public Leadership Network (WPLN) educates, organizes, and inspires women to run for elected office, obtain political appointments, and become more involved in the political process across the United States.
Women who believe in commonsense, pragmatic public policy solutions are often missing in political and policy dialogue. WPLN offers tools and opportunities designed to equip women with the knowledge and resources they need, including easily accessible online content and access to a community of like-minded people who want to support them as they step up, engage in the political process, and lead.
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