What would you gain, and what would you like to see, from an online community of women and politics?
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I would like to see am online community of women and politics because I believe, that politics is really the “art of the possible”. Since I was 14, I have always been excited by politics, even when it wasn’t great for women. I was a title IX baby and certainly there was big politics in that.
I think it’s important for women to have an understanding of what getting involved in politics means. It’s not dirty, it’s not a horrible choice to make. We politic all the time, we compromise at work, at home and with our friends to provide a hopefully positive outcome in the best interests of all parties.
I believe an online community for women and politics should be broken out into groups and we should find out what women are interested in,
how local politics can impact national issues and how national issues affect local politics
how to become a party committeeperson in your town or city
how to raise money
how to get your message heard by writing letters online and to the newspapers
how to help women run for office locally and then up the ladder
Then guest interviews
Like I for one would like to interview Patti Solis Doyle, or spend a day or days with her and then report that to the women in the online community as to what a campaign manager does, and how she balances her day–but even the intimate details of the hard phone calls, getting people to see the inner workings of a women’s campaign
Role models, who are the women around the country who are not just elected but appointed, how do you get appointed, how do you play the game?
Competitive nature-what does it take?
What are we teaching our daughters in school, are we asking them to volunteer in political campaigns, if so how do we get them to do that?
I think that’s about it for now.
Thank you Diana for your comments. I especially liked the questions you posed about competitive nature and being appointed.
I think I would gain confidence. I feel a little more at home here in a community of women. That I am safe to ask questions and get feedback without the threat of being chastised. I look forward to the day that I can debate effectively in any arena, but I am not there yet. I want to know how other women balance their personhood, their strengths and weaknesses in an arena that men dominate. How do you present yourself and your case when it seems as if you’re not heard simply because you are a woman? Even though it’s not right, do we need to follow the lead of other women and lead men to believe we are men so that we are heard? How do we advocate for ourselves, how do we organize ourselves, how do we make this change that we have been working for? As a parent, how do I encourage my daughters to be themselves, but to be strong too? Sure, there are answers, and I have heard them- but I hope there are more ways to come to these questions and answer them. I hope that through encouragement, women will gain confidence to stand up and become political leaders, myself included.
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