Word is spreading!  More and more people are hearing about The New Agenda:  following us in the media, on Facebook or on our blog.  Yesterday was one of the busiest traffic day we have ever had for our blog!  After the election, women want to know:  What’s next?
With so many new faces, we want to also take this opportunity to explain how The New Agenda has helped to shape the 2010 election.  And how our organization is improving the lives of women!
It started in the summer of 2008 when Hillary …

Here at TNA headquarters we have a slogan: Show us the women! This year we saw a historic 252 races involving female candidates. Now that election day has passed, it’s time to begin the analysis. We saw the women, but how well did they do?
We’ve taken the data from Rutgers Center for American Women in Politics and crunched a few numbers to see what happened. Here’s what we’ve collected so far:

Women did pretty well over all. We have so far won nearly half the seats women ran for, which is …

The New Agenda congratulates the women who had the courage to run in 2010.  Whether you won or lost last night, you have blazed the path for us all.
Here’s a heartening interview of the two women who have run for Vice President, Geraldine Ferraro (D) and Sarah Palin (R).  We hope that our viewers and our country can take a page from this interview:   respect women even if we disagree with them on policy.  And continue to fight together to end sexism together!
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Watch the …

Happy Election Day!!!
Now for some Election Day fun…
Tell us your prediction for this Election Day.  What will be the biggest surprise when we wake up tomorrow?
The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind gave her prediction over at The Daily Caller:
Women voters, for the first time since 1982 when exit polls were taken, will favor Republican candidates. In an effort to keep women voters, the Republicans will purposely put a woman on their 2012 ticket – either Palin/Gulianni or a victorious Mama Grizzley in the VP slot (Whitman, Haley or Martinez). Also, Liz …

The New Agenda joins other women’s groups in praising Oprah Winfrey for banning the word ‘bitch’ from her network.
In an article at The Daily Caller titled Feminists laud Oprah Winfrey for banning the word ‘bitch’ from new OWN television network, The New Agenda joined Women’s Media Center, Women in News and Media and blogger Shelby Knox.
The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind took it one step further, recalling Joy Behar’s use of the word on The View:
Amy Siskind, president and co-founder of the New Agenda, was thrilled about the news. “We …

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In the last 50 years, women have won rights and access to professions that our grandmothers could only dream of.  We now comprise more than 50% of college students, and approximately half of law and medical students.  But there is one profession that has posted a “No Girls Allowed” sign on the door, and that is politics.  The United States ranks 85th in the world in the number of women it has in legislative …