First comprehensive analysis of 2018 elections shows women candidates and elected officials increasing their share of seats over the past several election cycles at the federal, state and county level, while white men are declining across all levels of office.
Study: Demographics of U.S. Political Leadership Point to Deeply Broken Democracy
White men hold four times more political power than women and people of color. Washington – Up and down the country, across cities, states and political party lines, the people making decisions about America look nothing like America, according to new data, released today by the Reflective Democracy Campaign. Women and people of color are…
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS: Investing and supporting solutions to pave the way for Reflective Democracy
The Reflective Democracy Campaign has asked some important questions about the racial and gender disparities of our elected officials — Who Leads Us? and Who Runs in America? What we have found is an entrenched system in which two out of every three names on a ballot, and two out of every three elected offices,…
Access To Power Blocked At The Ballot Box: 90% Of Candidates Are White; Over 70% Are Male
As 2016 General Election Approaches, New Research Shows Bi-Partisan Diversity Crisis San Francisco, CA – October 22, 2015—New analysis by the Reflective Democracy Campaign of the Women Donors Network (WDN) shows that Americans can’t choose diversity at the ballot box: from the federal level down to county elections, just 10% of all candidates are people of…