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Pantsuit Politics

Seismic Shift: The New World of Women in Politics

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate International Women's Day, we are sharing clips from the incredible event we did in partnership with Ambassador Swanee Hunt in January. The event brought together an eclectic group of women, each working to advance the cause of women in politics in their own way. You'll hear short clips in today's episode, but we are providing the full audio on our Patreon page.  Individual Interviews: Kelly Dittmar, Center for American Women & Politics Muthoni Wambu Kraal, Former Vice President of National Outreach and Training of EMILY's List, National Political and Organizing Director for the DNC Sarah Riggs Amico, Businesswoman, 2018 Candidate for Lt. Gov. of Georgia Marianne Schnall, Founder of What Will It Take Movements Action Steps Panel:  A'shanti Gholar, Former Political Director, Emerge America Courtney Hill, Political Consultant, Emerge America Sabrina Schaeffer, Board Member, RightNOW Cynthia Terrell, Executive Director, RepresentWomen Primary Hurdles Panel: Julie Conway, Executive Director, VIEW PAC Rebecca Schuller, Executive Director, Winning for Women Rina Shah, Co-Founder, Women's Public Leadership Network Corie Whalen, Writer, Former Capitol Hill Comms. Director Media Matters Panel: Elisa Lees Muñoz, Executive Director, International Women's Media Foundation Susan Page, Washtington Bureau Chief, USA TODAY Maureen Bunyan, Veteran TV Journalist Thanks to our sponsor, Robinhood.  Want more Pantsuit Politics? Come see us in Paducah, KY on March 9. Our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), is available! You can purchase it now - for yourself, for friends, for your representative, for your senator, for everyone! We appreciate all of you who are spreading the word about the book to your local bookstores, libraries, and social circles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Any of you who've thought about running for office or working on a campaign, I know what you've thought

0:06.5

And my qualified is at the right time

0:10.5

Would I be good at this should I run and I am telling you yes to all of them?

0:16.1

Don't wait. I mean literally there are

0:20.1

You know 45 to 65 year old white dudes no offense. I love my dad and my husband and they both fall in that category

0:27.6

But who don't think twice about this question?

0:32.5

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right

0:35.8

We're listening to pants suit policies

0:42.2

You

0:51.1

Hello everyone and happy international women's day

0:54.7

Yay, we are celebrating today by sharing portions of the seismic shift event ambassador

1:00.2

Swani Hunt and her team invited us and lots of remarkable women doing remarkable political work to the historic

1:07.9

Metropolitan AME Church in Washington DC and so we're going to share portions of that conversation with you

1:14.1

We also want to share the full thing with everyone

1:18.6

It's just long and so we wanted to put it in a place where you can kind of settle in and get cozy and listen to it

1:24.3

So it will be in our Patreon feed patreon.com slash pants suit politics

1:29.5

But you do not have to be a patreon supporter in order to get this content now while you're there

1:35.1

You might want to check out all of the things that we try to do to give value to the people who support us financially

1:40.6

Listeners support is a huge part of our show

1:42.9

So feel free to browse and stay while while you're there

1:45.9

But you can hear this entire event without being a patreon supporter in that feed

1:51.1

But we're gonna give you some highlights today to kind of wet your appetite

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