Resources

Voting & Gender Gap Trends

Center for American Women and Politics

U.S. Census Bureau Report: Voting & Registration in the Election of November 2000

Women's Voting Projects

10 for Change—the National Organization for Women campaign to turn one vote into ten, and ten into 100.

Get Out Her Vote—the Feminist Majority campaign to get young women to vote, with PSAs by artists like Sheryl Crow and Laura Dern.

Hervote.org—a project to encourage women business leaders to give their employees the day off on Election Day and encourage women to vote.

League of Women Voters—information on holding voter registration drives, candidate questions, and the basics of voting.

VoteRunLead—getting young women into political participation, from voting to running for office, by The White House Project.

WomenVote USA—working to increase turnout of women voters, with a special emphasis on women of color.

Women's Voices, Women Vote—a project to get out the vote of the 22 million women on their own who did not vote in the last presidential election.

Young Women’s Leadership Conference—introduces young women to the electoral process, provides grassroots training, and links national and local leaders with young women.

Youth Vote Coalition—the nation's largest non-partisan coalition working to increase political involvement of the 50 million 18-30 years olds.

Women's Voting Guides

A Safer, Better World Begins with Women: Your Guide to Global Issues—a Women's Edge Coalition guide with candidate questions on global policies that affect women in 12 critical issue areas.

ABCs of Women's Issues—a voter's guide by the National Council of Women's Organizations.

Women's Voting History

Iron Jawed Angels—Oscar®-winner Hilary Swank leads an outstanding cast in the inspirational true story of women who dared to make a stand for women's rights, and ended up shaping the future of America. The DVD of the movie will be available soon from HBO.

Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment—A book released January 2004 by political analyst Eleanor Clift chronicles the many twists and turns of the suffrage struggle and shows how the issues and arguments that surrounded the movement still reverberate today.