Getting Women Elected
EMILY's List is a political action committee (a PAC) that focuses on getting Democratic women into elected office.
Ellen Malcolm, founder and chair of EMILY's List and the author of When Women Win: EMILY’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), talks about the PAC's founding and the women it's helped elect.
When comparing Democratic women to Democratic men in elected office, Malcolm said women tend to be more progressive, and they are currently leading the fight in equal pay, paid family leave, paid sick leave, and women's health.
As for this election cycle, Malcolm says she totally gets why young millennial women are largely rallying around Bernie Sanders. She recalls knocking on doors for McCarthy during the height of the anti-war movement and thinking that her generation was going to change how politics worked.
So her message about young millennials for Bernie: "Good for them for getting involved. It's encouraging to see another generation getting active." Ultimately, she says we'll all need to get behind the party nominee come November.
