[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
May 22, 2024
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
What Angela Alsobrooks’ Primary Win Means for Black Women in Politics [[link removed]]
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Maryland Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Angela Alsobrooks (second from right) takes a photo with supporters outside a voting location for the state primary election at the Marilyn Praisner Community Recreation Center on May 14, 2024, in Burtonsville, Md. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | It’s 2024. Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population—meaning we are the only true majority in the country. But when we look at who our decision-makers and powerholders are, we see a very different picture. Despite having multiple “record-breaking” years for women’s representation in politics, women still only make up:
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28
percent
of
Congress.
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32
percent
of
statewide
executive
offices.
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33
percent
of
state
legislatures.
It’s even worse when we break it down by race and ethnicity:
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Women
of
color
make
up
11
percent
of
Congress,
7
percent
of
statewide
executive
offices
and
10
percent
of
state
legislatures.
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We
currently
have
zero
Black
women
governors
and
only
one
Black
woman
in
the
Senate.
But that could soon change. This week, exciting news came out of Maryland’s Democratic primary race: U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks won big, despite being outspent 10 to 1 by her opponent, Rep. David Trone, a wealthy businessman who threw more than $60 million of his own money into his campaign.
Alsobrooks is the county executive for Maryland’s second-largest county, and this win means she, along with Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, could become the United States’ fourth and fifth Black women to ever serve in the U.S. Senate—following Carol Moseley Braun (1993-1998), Kamala Harris (2017-2021) and Laphonza Butler (2023-2024).
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What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"Will
the
jury
believe
Stormy
Daniels?”
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The
19th
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"An
Idaho
Public
Library
Will
Become
Adults-Only
July
1,
2024”
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Book
Riot
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