Election 2020—

19 to Watch: Key races, issues at stake for women and LGBTQ+ voters in 2020

• Presidential
• House races
• Arizona Senate
• Georgia Senate
• Iowa Senate
• Kansas Senate
• Kentucky Senate
• Maine Senate
• Mississippi Senate
• Texas Senate
• Missouri gubernatorial

• Latinas
• Black women
• White suburban women

• The economy
• Health care
• The pandemic
• LGBTQ+ rights
• Race and racism

— Pregnant people are more likely to die if they contract COVID-19, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

— 1.5 per 1,000 symptomatic pregnant women died of COVID, compared to 1.2 per 1,000 non-pregnant women. Those between ages 35 and 44 were more likely to die than those younger than 24. (The CDC study did not account for pregnant people who are not women.)

— Pregnant women of Asian and Pacific Islander descent were more likely to require intensive care, compared to their non-pregnant counterparts.

— Pregnant or not, Black women constituted a disproportionate share of women who died — making up 36.6 percent of deaths overall, even though just 14.1 percent of women in the study were Black.

Read the full story by Shefali Luthra here.

Election 2020—

Women will decide the 2020 election
 

In the most consequential election many Americans will ever live through, the idea of “electability” has loomed large.

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, six women sought to challenge the idea of electability, that indefinable quality that makes people believe a candidate is most likely to win a race. Ultimately, voters landed on choosing between two septuagenarian White men to lead the country for the next four years.

This Election Day, electability will not be about defining a candidate’s attributes, but rather, defining the electorate’s actions. 

In 2020, women will decide who is electable.

Women make up the majority of the U.S. population, the majority of the workforce and the majority of the electorate. Yet less than a quarter of the seats in Congress are held by women. Only 7 percent of state legislators are women of color. There has never been a woman president of the United States. And for just the third time in history, voters have an opportunity to make a woman the vice president.

Read the full story here.

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