Every Woman Counts, Lifetime TV
Posted by Jana Edele | Filed under News
Look for the Velvet Kittens TV interview on the upcoming Every Woman Counts on Lifetime TV, beginning in January, and running through the elections.
Every Woman Counts
OVERVIEW
My Lifetime Commitment: Every Woman Counts is an award-winning, nonpartisan, public advocacy campaign to encourage women to get more engaged in the political process as voters and future candidates. Launched in 1992, the effort has evolved into a multiplatform initiative comprised of on-air, online, digital, community and legislative components, including original PSAs, polling, candidate forums, candidate trainings, special events at the political conventions and voter registration efforts, in partnership with celebrities, bipartisan political leaders and key community and industry organizations. Next year, 2008, will mark the campaign's 5th presidential election cycle.
The Every Woman Counts campaign:
Ensures that issues important to women are raised during election season
Motivates women to register and to vote
Encourages women to consider running for office at all levels
WOMEN & POLITICS FACTS*
Officeholders
Women hold 87, or 16.3%, of the 535 seats in the 110th US Congress
Women currently make up 23.5% of state legislatures
There are nine women governors
The United States ranks 67th internationally in women's political representation**
Voting Behavior
Women, who make up 52% of the population, are more likely to vote than men
67.3 million women reported voting in 2004, 8.8 million more than men
Approximately 35 million eligible women didn't vote on election day 2004
*Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
**Inter-Parliamentary Union