Morning. Welcome to the center for American Progress and im Carmel Martin executive Vice President for policy at the action fund and thank you so much for joining us today for an exciting event on womens leadership. Weve arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months weve had the first female candidate from a Major Political party run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. Although women in us policy began 2017, its grim numbers occupying less than 25 percent of elected offices at all levels of government. We also witnessed a historic women led outpouring by progressives into the streets in the wake of Donald Trumps inauguration. And since then weve seen a massive upsurge in the number of women who are coming forward to run for Political Office. Since the start of this year, more than 11,000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest
Event on womens leadership. We have arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months, we have had the first female candidate run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a virgin by a high margin. Some pretty grandma numbers of, occupying left and 25 of elected offices at all levels of avernment, we also witnessed historic outpouring after Donald Trumps election. We have seen a massive upsurge in the number of women coming forward to run for Political Office. Since the start of this year, more than 11 thousand women have a approach to emilys list in running for office compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. Centralngs us to the point of todays event. Where do we government here . How do we make a most of this unique moment of political resistance and progressed of renewal and turn womens desire for office into electoral reality . We have to start by getting our facts straight. For
Good morning morning. Welcome to the center for American Progress action fund. I am the executive and really thank you so much for joining us today for an exciting event on womens leadership. We have arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months we have had the first female candidate from a Major Political party run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. With some pretty grim numbers occupying less than 25 of elected offices at all levels of government. We witnesses a women led of outpour and since then, we have seen a massive up surge in the number of women who were coming forward to run for Political Office. More than 11,000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest in running for office compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. Where do we go from here . How do we make the most of these unique moment of political resistan
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