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The 2012 Project
The 2012 Project is a nonpartisan national campaign of the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University to identify and engage accomplished women to run for the United States Congress and state legislatures following reapportionment and redistricting within each state. U.S. Census data collected every 10 years include information on population shifts across the nation and are used to redraw congressional and state legislative districts resulting in new and open legislative seats.〔http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/redistricting-data.php〕 This work is done in order to comply with the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the “one person, one vote” principle.〔http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/redistricting-data.php〕 As of the 2010 Census, women made up 50.8% of the population.〔http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf〕 In terms of congressional and legislative seats, women currently make up 17% of the U.S. Senate and 16.8% of the U.S. House of Representatives. They make up a slightly larger percentage of the state legislatures at 23.6%.〔http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Current_Numbers.php〕 The aim of The 2012 Project is to increase the number of women running for state legislative and congressional office in 2012.
== Background ==
The 2012 Project was established by Mary Hughes, a political strategist and co-founder of the San Francisco-based political consulting firm, Staton and Hughes, now known as Hughes & Co, in Palo Alto, California. Hughes has been an adviser to women candidates running for office at all levels of government for more than two decades.〔http://articles.sfgate.com/1997-03-30/news/17745454_1_emily-s-list-women-candidates-organizations-women〕
The idea for the 2012 Project came about after Hughes attended a June 2006 summit at the Center for American Women and Politics where scholars and activists explored the underlying causes for the decline in the number of women in political office.〔http://www.barbaraleefoundation.org/partnerships/cawp〕
The 2012 Project is a campaign of the Center for American Women and Politics, led by Debbie Walsh. The 2012 Project aims to identify and support women not previously active in politics to run for office at any level. The goal is to increase female political representation at the state and federal levels. The number of women in state legislatures dropped by more than 60 as a result of the 2010 elections.〔http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/documents/stleg.pdf〕 Prior to the 2011 special election victories of Kathy Hochul and Janice Hahn to the U.S. House of Representatives, the number of women serving in the 112th Congress was 89, down one from the 2010 total, representing the first drop in female Congressional representation since the 96th Congress in 1979. This does not include the three women delegates from Guam, The Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC.〔http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/documents/cong.pdf〕〔https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30261.pdf〕〔http://womenincongress.house.gov/historical-data/representatives-senators-by-congress.html?congress=66〕 According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the United States ranks 70th out of more than 134 countries in the world with respect to political gender.〔http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm#2〕 The Global Gender Gap Report published in 2010 by the World Economic Forum ranks the United States as 40th out of 134 countries in terms of gender equality in political empowerment.〔http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2010.pdf〕
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