Women & Politics Institute

Recent Media Advisories

• Women’s History Month: AU Experts Available to Comment

  American University experts are available to comment on issues including America’s First Ladies, women in politics, women voters, women’s careers and working mothers, barriers to women’s advancement in the workplace, feminism, and women in journalism.

• State of the Union Address: AU Experts Available

  Several American University professors are available for comment regarding President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 25. 

• From the White House to American University

  American University Celebrates Women’s History Month with Special Guests Including former chief of staff, director of White House Council on Women and Girls and ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State.

• Author Linda Tarr-Whelan, AU's Jennifer Lawless Discuss Women’s Leadership

  Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way, to discuss the importance of having women “at the table” with AU's Jennifer Lawless and Dotty Lynch.

• The Women & Politics Institute Applauds the Impending Release of “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything”

  American University’s Women & Politics Institute (WPI) was pleased to learn that NBC News will devote significant resources to discussing first lady of California Maria Shriver’s latest project, "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything."

• AU Women & Politics Institute Director's Statement on Women's Equality Day

  Today, on the date commemorating American women gaining the right to vote, Women & Politics Institute Director Jennifer L. Lawless stated that our work is still far from finished in terms of bringing women into the political power structure.