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• Aug 03 Kirsten Gillibrand Really Must Insist That More Women Run For Office Jezebel There are currently just 17 women serving in the Senate, and a mere 75 in the House. If the House and Senate were more evenly proportioned, she recently told a donor conference, "We would not be debating contraception. We would be debating the economy."
• Aug 02 Gillibrand Works To Elect More Women Washington Post Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) packed 70 of her top donors into a conference room overlooking Times Square this week and urged them to give more money and spread the word about three Democratic women who have a good shot at unseating House Republicans.
• Apr 17 Today, Women Need To Demand Equal Pay Forbes Today on Equal Pay Day, which highlights the 4.5 extra months women would need to work to earn what men earned in 2011, it’s time to face the reality that the laws put in place to bar gender-based wage discrimination in the U.S. are not working.
• Mar 24 Twenty years on, ‘Year of the Woman’ fades Washington Post Overall, the number of women elected, while rising through much of the 1990s, has hit a plateau. Advocates are redoubling their efforts to elect more women this fall.
• Mar 21 Q&A: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand On Hillary Clinton In 2016, The 'War On Women,' And More BuzzFeed Once a week, Shift talks one-on-one with some of the world's most powerful and influential women. We begin today with New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who tells us she plans to push for a female presidential candidate—Hillary Clinton, namely—in 2016.
• Jan 30 Upward trend of female candidates for Congress USA Today The roster of congressional candidates for the 2012 elections is taking shape and one trend is emerging: 2012 could be another Year of the Woman. This year a notable number of candidates are running that could send a wave of female lawmakers to Congress.
• Jan 22 It's Up To Women To Elect Pro-Choice Candidates in 2012 Kirsten Gillibrand, The Huffington Post The only way we're going to re-elect President Obama and elect a pro-choice majority in Congress is if women make their voices heard this year, vote for pro-choice candidates in November and bring a surge of women candidates into Congress.
• Nov 02 Women In Politics: Kirsten Gillibrand, US Senator For NY Amanda Pouchot, The Levo League Women are the future of this country and Senator Gillibrand is going to ensure that we all get more active (as in, vote!) and become more vocal about the issues we care about.
• Nov 02 Senate Women Face High Stakes In 2012 Amanda Terkel, The Huffington Post Seven female senators are up for reelection in 2012, and only one of them is a Republican. Five more women running for Senate are expected to be their party's nominees.
• Oct 25 Engineering Is the Way to Bring Jobs Back to America Penny Herscher, The Huffington Post We are facing an ongoing threat to America's global economic leadership and increasing the number of engineers in our workforce is one powerful way we can change our destiny as a country.
• Oct 22 First Women's Economic Summit Held At NYU Jill Miller Zimon, Writes Like She Talks I can’t think of anyone who is doing more than U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is to transform women’s numbers and talents and skills and potential into action that improves life for all of us.
• Oct 21 Inspiring Financial Empowerment of Women Sara Manzano-Diaz, dol.gov I hear it everywhere I go, from family and friends to colleagues and neighbors: The empowerment and development of women and girls can positively improve the economic prosperity of millions of women, American families and our economy.
• Oct 20 Where's Rosie The Riveter? Inspiration From Senator Gillibrand's Women's Empowerment Summit Amanda Pouchot, LevoLeague “If we, the United States are going to out innovate, out create and out do our competitors, we are only going to be successfully able to do that with WOMEN leading the way.” – Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) I’m a Kirsten Gillibrand groupie.
• Oct 20 Kirsten, Debbie & Gabby: 'In Friendship We Trust' Julie Pippert, Momocrats When I see action coming from Congress that is true grassroots beneficial legislation, time and again it seems to come from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
• Oct 20 More Women in Senate, but Seats Are at Risk NYTimes.com It is the greatest number of female incumbents ever up for re-election in the Senate, and would be among the highest number of nominees ever, which could add up to a banner year for women in the deliberative — and testosterone-infused — legislative body.
• Oct 17 [VIDEO] TODAY: Sen. Gillibrand: Women are 'untapped economic engine' The Today Show Senator Gillibrand on The Today Show to discuss women's economic empowerment and the need for a new generation of Rosei The Riveters.
• Oct 17 Mentoring Program Serves Young Women In Business The AP A new program to boost the number of women in corporate boardrooms is tapping 100 executives from top businesses in New York to mentor young women.
• Oct 13 What It Takes To Run For Office Good Housekeeping Strong women don’t have a reputation for keeping quiet. But in running our communities and country, our voices still aren’t loud enough.
• Oct 13 In Friendship We Trust Good Housekeeping When Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head nearly a year ago, few thought she would survive. But with the help of two unwavering friends who never stopped believing in her, she did.
• Oct 11 Conversation with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Marianne Schnall, Feminist.com Marianne Schnall interviewed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about her Off The Sidelines effort to get more women involved in public life.
• Oct 11 Exclusive: Senator Gillibrand’s Call to Action Marianne Schnall, Women's Media Center Like the national appeal to Rosie the Riveter during World War II, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is asking women to move “Off the Sidelines” to the center of decision making and power in the United States.
• Sep 27 Event Reinforces Ways Women Create Change Karyn Korteling, Syracuse.com Gillibrand’s forum made one thing clear: Women are ready, willing and able to take part in our economic recovery.
• Sep 23 Equality Is Good For Business Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat & Chronicle Every day, American women make incredible contributions to our economy, but we are just starting to scratch the surface of women's economic potential.
• Sep 17 Gillibrand seeks to empower women in business Buffalo News Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand called for a revival of the "Rosie the Riveter" campaign Friday to galvanize women to become economically empowered during a round-table discussion with local female business owners and entrepreneurs.
• Sep 16 Clinton Calls Women Key To Fueling Asian US Economic Growth Bloomberg Clinton cited a study by consultants McKinsey & Co. that found that approximately 1/4 of U.S. GDP is attributable to productivity gains tied to the rise of women in the U.S. workplace over the last 40 years, from holding 37% of all jobs, to 48%.
• Sep 10 [VIDEO] PBS's To The Contrary PBS.org PBS's To The Contrary discusses Senator Gillibrand's Off The Sidelines campaign to get more women involved in the issues they care about.
• Aug 26 91 Years Later, We All Have To Carry The Torch Kirsten Gillibrand, The Huffington Post In an era when women occupy corner offices, serve as Supreme Court justices and travel the world representing America as our Secretary of State, it is easy to forget that it's been less than a century since we won the right to vote.
• Aug 24 The World's 100 Most Powerful Women Forbes.com They are politicians, CEOs, bankers, cultural icons, billionaires and entrepreneurs. A fresh look at power as reach and influence.
• Aug 23 Skilled, savvy women can rescue our sagging economy Gail Sheehy, USA Today Kirsten Gillibrand is 44 years old, a rising star in Congress, mother of two, and determined to wake women up. The New York senator believes it is vital that women's economic potential be unleashed to bring the country out of its economic malaise.
• Aug 11 Gillibrand Agrees With New Yorkers Who Want to See More Women in Office David Freedlander, NY Observer Earlier today we reported on the results of a Quinnipiac poll that showed New Yorkers wanted more women in elected office. This news cheered Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has launched an effort called Off the Sidelines dedicated to ensuring that happens.
• Aug 10 What men can learn from women about leadership in the 21st century Carol Kinsey Goman, Washington Post Women employ a more participative leadership style, are more likely to share information and power, and have strong relational skills that make them seem empathic to their staffs.
• Aug 04 Gillibrand Strengthens NYC & Wisconsin Alliance Job Party USA Upon my return home to Wisconsin to help with the recalls, I was particualrly excited to see a powerful voice joining the effort from my adopted home in New York: Senator Gillibrand.
• Aug 05 Gillibrand Gets Off The Sidelines for Wisconsin Recall Elections PolitickerNY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is getting involved in the effort as part of her initiative to get more women involved in politics.
• Aug 05 Total Recall: EMILY's List and Sen. Gillibrand make closing arguments in Wisconsin dane101 The recalls in Wisconsin have been unprecedented for numerous reasons, but one that hasn't received much attention is the fact that women are running in five out of six of the recall races.
• Aug 04 Would Having More Women At The Negotiating Table Have Helped Democrats Get A Better Debt Ceiling Deal? Madeline Meth, Think Progress Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), whose campaign, Off the Sidelines, seeks to engage more women in the political process, suggests that women ”tend to be more results-oriented and less concerned with getting the credit.”
• Aug 03 On The Verge Of Taking Back The Wisconsin State Senate Erica Sagrans, EMILYs List blog EMILY's List supporters are hitting the doors and phones in Wisconsin. And this weekend, they'll be fanning out into key recall districts on the ground in Wisconsin, showing that when women fight back, we can win big.
• Aug 03 Let's Send 5 Democratic Women To The Wisconsin State Senate Kirsten Gillibrand, Huffington Post That's why I created Off The Sidelines, a new effort to serve as a rallying cry to mobilize women and urge them to make their voices heard. The best way to ensure that our values are represented is if we run and win and represent them ourselves.
• Jul 28 Abrams, Gillibrand's first judicial pick, nominated to bench Thomson Reuters President Obama on Thursday nominated Ronnie Abrams, an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell, to serve as a judge in the Southern District of New York. Abrams' nomination marks the first time Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has recommended a judicial nominee.
• Jul 26 Sarah Jessica Parker: I Don't Know How She Does It Vogue This fall, Sarah Jessica Parker stars as a frazzled and overextended wife, mother and career woman in the film I Don’t Know How She Does It. It’s a part, the actress says, that’s probably closest to her real life. So, how does she do it?
• Jul 25 Women’s Group Puts New Candidates on ‘List’ EMILY's List awarded three more female House candidates its early seal of approval Monday.
• Jul 23 The Feministing Five: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Chloe, Feministing Gillibrand is an outspoken supporter of reproductive rights and of LGBT rights. She has campaigned for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the extension of marriage rights to same sex couples, and in March of this year.
• Jul 19 A Senator Looks for More Women in Office NYTimes.com “I have been very troubled” about the slowdown in women’s participation in public life, she told me, and that was why she introduced a national campaign, called Off the Sidelines, to fire them up.
• Jul 18 Aspiring Politicos Vie for County Seats NY Times It hasn’t exactly been a banner year for New York politicians: the names Weiner and Kruger have recently been added to the list of elected officials who are associated with scandal.
• Jul 14 Girl Power Wins At Google's First Science Fair The New York Times Bits blog If Google’s first science fair is any indication, the top scientists of the future will be women. Google has announced the fair’s winners, and they are all young women.
• Jul 13 LVMH Pledges to Hire More Women in Senior Executive Positions New York It's a commonly held perception that the fashion industry is dominated by women. But if you look at the upper levels of the business side, this is far from the case.
• Jul 13 Why Kirsten Gillibrand Wants You to Run for Office Abigail Pesta , Marie Claire The number of women in Congress has declined for the first time in decades. The junior senator from New York wants to change that.
• Jul 13 Albany sees fewer female lawmakers Tom Precious , The Buffalo News There's a reason the power sessions in Albany are called "three men in a room." Women are not invited.
• Jul 11 A Woman’s Place Ken Auletta, The New Yorker Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture?
• Jul 11 Senator Gillibrand Wants You Cynthia Kounaris, The Huffington Post If you're a woman. She wants us women to get in the political game -- which is why she created her new organization, Off the Sidelines.
• Jul 07 Two Years of Economic Recovery, Women Lose Jobs, Men Find Them Pew Research Center The sluggish recovery from the Great Recession has been better for men than for women. From June 2009-May 2011, men gained 768k jobs and women, by contrast, lost 218k jobs.
• Jul 07 VIDEO: Jennifer Granholm on MSNBC discussing Kirsten's call for more women in politics MSNBC On July 7, 2011, Jennifer Granholm was on MSNBC to discuss Kirsten's call for women to get off the sidelines and involved in politics.
• Jul 07 Gillibrand's Bipartisan Partisan Pitch To Women WNYC.org “I want to try to help get more women engaged so that their voices can be better heard in electoral politics,” Gillibrand explained last month. “I believe that enough women aren’t off the sidelines fight for the things they care about."
• Jul 06 VIDEO: Kirsten on Hardball to discuss the need for more women in public life MSNBC.com On July 6, 2011, Kirsten was on Hardball with Rep. Kathy Hochul to discuss the importance of more women getting into politics.
• Jul 06 Google Exec Marissa Mayer Explains Why There Aren't More Girl Geeks The Huffington Post Google's Marissa Mayer on why there aren't more women tech geeks: “The #1 most important thing we can do to increase the number of women in tech is to show a multiplicity of different role models."
• Jul 05 Congress with a woman's touch W.W., The Economist The New York Times reports on the campaign of Kirsten Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York, to encourage more American women to run for political office.
• Jul 05 Keep Doing What You're Doing, Senator Gillibrand Jezebel The Times reports that Gillibrand has launched a campaign called Off the Sidelines, "to mobilize women across the country..."
• Jul 05 A Gillibrand Campaign: More Women in Politics Ray Hernandez, The New York Times Now, Ms. Gillibrand has begun a campaign, called Off the Sidelines, to mobilize women across the country as evidence emerges that the slow but steady progress made by women in elective politics has begun to stall.
• Jun 28 Clinton Says African Economies Would Fail Without Women’s Toil Flavia Krause-Jackson, Bloomberg Hillary Clinton’s speech was met with silence from the male-dominated envoys at the African Union as she criticized the continents aging autocrats. The mood changed when the U.S. Secretary of State turned her attention to women.
• Jun 23 It's Time For Congress To Act On The Paycheck Fairness Act U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand , The Huffington Post This week, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked up to 1.6 million women from suing Walmart for sex discrimination in a class action lawsuit.
• Jun 14 Personal Democracy Forum: Women Out Front Morra Aarons Mele, Blogher Senator Gillibrand spoke to the crowd about her commitment to using the Internet to make politicians (including herself) more accountable to voters.
• Jun 14 RIP Laura Ziskin Facebook RIP Laura Ziskin: trailblazing film producer, founder of Stand Up To Cancer and inspiration to women everywhere.
• Jun 09 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: We Need To Get Women Off The Sidelines Donna Schwartz Mills, Momocrats "Too many women are sitting on the sidelines today and ...they are not engaged…too many women think that politics doesn’t relate to them," Senator Gillibrand said on a conference call with women political bloggers yesterday.
• Jun 08 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "Too Many American Women Are Sitting On The Sidelines" Robin Marty, Care2 "Too many women are sitting on the sidelines today, and are not getting engaged. Many women think their votes don't matter. That couldn't be further from the truth," Gillibrand stated in a conference call with bloggers.
• May 26 Video: Kirsten on Morning Joe discussing women making their voices heard Kirsten spoke on Morning Joe about the need for women to get off the sidelines.
• May 08 Empowering America's Women Kirsten Gillibrand, The Huffington Post In honor of Mother's Day, Kirsten wrote at The Huffington Post about the importance of passing pay equity and getting women engaged at every level of public life.
• May 05 Electing Change: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Getting Progressive Women Into Office Suzanne Reismann, BlogHer On Tuesday, May 3, I tuned into a discussion between Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY's List. When I tuned into the discussion, Sen. Gillibrand and Schriock were discussing the importance of electing more women to office.
• May 03 Video: "EMILY’s List Live" Chat with Stephanie Schriock & Sen. Gillibrand Kirsten chatted live on Facebook with EMILY's List president Stephanie Schriock.
• Apr 12 Paycheck Fairness: Progress for America's Women and Economic Security For the Middle Class Kirsten Gillibrand, The Huffington Post It is time to recognize that the women's movement is stalled. We have spent the last decade fighting to protect the hard fought gains of my mother's generation. This is not good enough. We need to be moving forward.
• Mar 11 Video: Kirsten Gillibrand speaking about women in power at the Women In The World conference Kirsten spoke with Tina Brown and Mika Brzezinski at The Daily Beast's Women In The World summit about the need for women to get off the sidelines.
• Mar 10 Kirsten Gillibrand: More women in politics Karin Tanage, Politico Kirsten Gillibrand participated in a live chat on the Daily Beast’s website about the need for more women in power.
• Mar 09 Women in the World Live Chat Series: Senator Gillibrand Ronnie Cho, The Daily Beast Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke with The Daily Beast's Ronnie Cho about the 2011 Women in the World summit, and why we need more women in power now more than ever.
• Mar 01 White House Issues Report on Women in America Sheryl Stolberg, NYTimes.com Women have higher graduation rates than men at all academic levels and by 2019 they are projected to account for 60 percent of all American undergraduates. But at all levels of education, women still earn only 75 percent of what men earn.
• Aug 07 Gillibrand attends the BlogHer conference, stresses organization Eric Kuhn, CNN.com Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand met with a group of 25 of the web's top female political bloggers Friday evening as part of the BlogHer Conference, a two-day gathering of 2,400 female bloggers.