Gender Equity

We need leaders who champion progressive legislation and fight back against regressive bills on Gender Equity every day.

While women make up 51 percent of the population in North Carolina, they are severely underrepresented in elected office. North Carolina was graded "D" for participation of women in politics and government by the NC Department of Administration’s Council for Women and Youth Involvement.

Additionally, of our 100 100 counties there are 31 that lack women serving at the county commission level. And North Carolina ranks in the bottom third of states for number of women in the state legislature.

Because women are underrepresented in political office in North Carolina, men in public officehave been blocking legislation designed to improve gender equity for decades. Every year, legislation aiming to raise the minimum wage, enact paid sick and parental leave, create more affordable and accessible child and senior care, close the gender wage gap, support maternal health, end the pink tax, and more, get blocked.

The solution is simple: We need to elect more progressive women who will chapion gender equity that will result in better workplaces, communities, and lives for all North Carolinians.