Abstract

Examining why women don’t run for office or don’t get elected in nearly the numbers that men do.

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Susannah Wellford is the founder of Running Start, inspiring young women and girls to political leadership, & the Women under Forty Political Action Committee (WUFPAC)

With a response by Belinda Phipps, Chair of the Fawcett Society

Over the past sixteen years, Susannah Wellford has founded two organisations designed to raise the political voice of young women in America – Running Start, to inspire young women and girls to political leadership, and the Women under Forty Political Action Committee (WUFPAC), which Susannah co-founded in 1999 and led for five years. WUFPAC is a non-partisan national women’s group dedicated to electing young women to political office.