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The Gender of Politics:How (And How Much) Will Women Influence Election 2000?
Tuesday, April 18th9:30 am – 11:15 amBroadway Millennium Hotel44th and Broadway, New York City
9:30 am Registration
9:40 am Welcome/Introductions
- Tina Hoff, Director of Public Health Information and Communications, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
9:45 am The Gender of Politics: How (And How Much) Will Women Influence Election 2000?
Who Is the “Woman Voter?” What Issues Does “She” Care About?
- Mollyann Brodie, PhD, Vice President and Director of Public Opinion and Media Research, Kaiser Family Foundation, will give an overview of how pollsters identify “women voters” and the issues women care about this year, including health care.
Election 2000 Predictions: What Do Women Want? How Will They Get It?
- Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, CEO and President, The Polling Company, has advised Republican candidates including Jack Kemp, Newt Gingrich, and former Vice President Dan Quayle. She has served as a political analyst for CNN and appears as a commentator on ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox News, and MSNBC. Her corporate clients include Philip Morris, The Wall Street Journal, and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories.
- Anna Greenberg, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, is working on a long-term research project on gender and politics and consulting to iVillage.com on its election-related polling.
Where Are the Women Candidates? What Happened to “Women’s Issues?” And What About Abortion?
- Kelli Conlin, Executive Director, NARAL/New York, will discuss the current crop of women candidates; whether female officeholders are “better” for women; and the findings of her group’s “women’s monitor.”
Voter Education and Outreach: How Can You Learn More About the Issues? The Candidates?
- Timothy F. Mooney, Vice President, Political Affairs, Voter.com, will talk about the range of places voters can go for more information about issues and the candidates. He will also discuss new voter education and outreach efforts.
11:00 am Discussion and Q & A
Online Resource List-EIBbriefinglinks4_.doc-20000418-EIBbriefinglinks4_-doc
Online ResourcesKaiser Family Foundation Election 2000 ResourcesElection SitesMedia Organizations’ Election SitesPolitical ResourcesPolitical Organization SitesWomen and the 2000 ElectionWebsites for WomenStatistics and PollsAdditional Resources
Kaiser Family Foundation Election 2000 Resources
League of Women Voters – Join the Debate: Your Guide to Health Issues in the 2000 Election (PDF Format)
National Survey on Health Care and the 2000 Elections
The Public, Managed Care, and Consumer Protection (PDF Format)
Federal Election Commission Freedom Channel: video views of candidates Voter.com: informational database on elections
Media Organizations’ Election Sites
ABC NewsCBS NewsCNNC-SPAN Fox NewsMSNBCNational Public RadioNew York Times NewsweekRock the Vote: MTV sponsored site for votersTimeUS News & World ReportUSA TodayWashington Post
Almanac of American Politics 2000
Center for American Women and Politics: women and the 2000 electionCenter for American Women and Politics: women in politics
Democracy Net: an interactive site that provides voter information
Vote-Smart: a national library of political information
Women Vote: directory of political resources for women
Democratic National CommitteeLeague of Women Voters National Federation of Republican Women National Foundation for Women Legislators National Political Coalition of Black Women Reform PartyRepublican National Committee
Oxygen Election 2000 Shewire Election 2000Women Candidates 2000 Women.com Election 2000
ABC News CNNThe Gallup Organization Newsweek The Pew Research Center The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research TimeWashington PostWomen.com
ivillage.com: a network for women Oxygen: a site dedicated to womenWomen Online Worldwide Women.com: connecting women in business
“Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections” by Richard Logan Fox
“The Gender Wild Card” by Jon Ann Steinmetz
History of the American Suffrage Movement with selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association Collection 1848 – 1921
“Surveying Women Voters” – An interview with Emily’s List president, Ellen Malcolm
“Unfair Campaign Coverage of Women?” by Marie C Wilson, President; Barbara Wasserman, Executive Director, The White House Project
“Women and Campaign Contributions” a study by Oxygen.com
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is not responsible for the content of the individualsites listed herein.
The Gender of Politics: How (And How Much) Will Women Influence Election 2000?
Campaign 1992 was dubbed “The Year of the Woman” because more female candidates ran that year than any other in U.S. history. In 1996, “Soccer Moms” grabbed headlines as the group that candidates needed to win. What role will women have in 2000? How will Election 2000 be remembered? Who is the “woman voter?” What issues does “she” care about? How will women affect the 2000 campaign?
A panel of experts, including Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, President, The Polling Company, Anna Greenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Kelli M. Conlin, Executive Director, New York State affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Timothy F. Mooney, Vice President, Political Affairs, Voter.com, and Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., Vice President and Director for Public Opinion & Media Research, Kaiser Family Foundation, discussed Election 2000 predictions, “women’s issues,” and how women can become “informed” voters at an Emerging Issues in Reproductive Health Briefing on April 18, 2000.
Briefing Resources:
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Mollyann Brodie is Vice President, Director of Public Opinion and Media Research at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She directs a variety of public knowledge and survey-related projects. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Brodie was a Health Policy Fellow and Assistant Director of the Program on Public Opinion and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she co-edited Volume IV of the series on The Future of American Health Care. Her research efforts focus on public opinion and knowledge and the roleof political institutions in health policy. She has recently been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Dr. Brodie received her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University, holds a Master of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard’s School of Public Health, and a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Brodie worked as a health policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Evaluation and Inspection, and performed research at the RAND Corporation.
Kellyanne Fitzpatrick is CEO and President of the polling company
,a political consulting and public affairs research firm founded in 1995, with offices in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.The polling company
specializes in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, and provides strategic counsel for political, corporate and public affairs clients. During her 12-year polling career, she has advised clients in nearly all 50 states, including Jack Kemp, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and former Vice President Dan Quayle. She has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for statewide and congressional political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies, measuring voter attitudes, client satisfaction, and consumer opinions.
Ms. Fitzpatrick began her polling career as Political Research Assistant at The Wirthlin Group, pollster to President Ronald Reagan. Prior to forming the polling company
, she was Corporate Counsel and Senior Account Executive at The Luntz Research Companies, a firm known for its work on the Republican Contract With America. Ms. Fitzpatrick is a magna cum laude graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., where she earned a B.A. in political science, studied at Oxford University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1992, Ms. Fitzpatrick was awarded a law degree with honors from the George Washington University Law Center, and for four years taught there as Adjunct Professor of Legal Research and Oral Advocacy.
Anna Greenberg, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Greenberg is also Director of Opinion Research for interSurvey, a Web-based survey research firm based in Menlo Park, California. Working with interSurvey, she is the director of polling for the women’s electorate project for iVillage.com, a women’s internet network. Additionally, Dr. Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, located in Washington, D.C., where she is working on a project on gender and politics.
Dr. Greenberg received her B.A., cum laude, from Cornell University, Department of Government, and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Department of Political Science. She is currently working on a book called Divine Inspiration: Faith, Congregations and American Politics.
Tina Hoff is Director of Public Health Information and Communication for the Media and Public Education Program at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She oversees the release of Foundation-commissioned research and several communications-related programs, including an ongoing media briefing series on reproductive health issues and the Talking with Kids campaign. She is involved with many of the Foundation’s special partnerships focusing on public education, including several joint collaborations with leading women’s and teen magazines and other media, including Glamour, Seventeen, YM, Family Circle, Essence, Latina, and the Los Angeles Times. At the Foundation, Ms. Hoff also has worked on several studies of media coverage of health and reproductive health issues, including content analyses of the sexual and reproductive health coverage in women’s, men’s, teen, and other specialty magazines; a 10-year study of news coverage of HIV/AIDS; the sexual content on television’s family hour; and the sexual content on television soap operas and talk shows. Ms. Hoff joined the Foundation in 1994.
Previously, Ms. Hoff worked for a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm, The Widmeyer-Baker Group, representing primarily non-profit organizations focused on health care and women’s and children’s issues. She received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia.
Timothy F. Mooney serves as Vice President of Political Affairs of Voter.com. He is a national political consultant who has worked in 200 electoral campaigns in 37 states. He is a former political director for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s largest and top-ranked business organization. Mr. Mooney was a founding partner of the Southwest Policy Group, a political consulting firm specializing in ballot initiative and referendum campaigns and grassroots lobbying. He was educated at Pepperdine University and at Harvard University.
Kelli Conlin has served as the Executive Director of the New York Stateaffiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League fornine years. During her tenure, Ms. Conlin has become one of the mostinfluential political voices in the state. NARAL/New York is widely viewed asa powerful political organization, both electorally and legislatively. Ms. Conlinhas also developed critically important programs to address teh lack of accessto reproductive health access in underserved areas, through the organization’sInstitute for Reproductive Health Access.
Ms. Conlin holds a Master of Science in Journalism from NorthwesternUniversity, and a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame,Indiana. Before Joining the staff of NARAL/New York, she worked as aneditor for Outside Magazine, served as President of NOW in New York City,and was Director of Public Information at the New York City CampaignFinance Board.
The Olmstead Decision: Implications for Medicaid
In June, 1999, the Supreme Court rule in Olmstead v L.C. that states were required to provide services to persons with disabilities in community settings rather than institutions, if certain conditions were met. This Policy Brief provides an overview of the Olmstead case, including the facts, the court ruling, and the disposition of the case. In addition, the brief describes the issues surrounding implementation and the implications this ruling could have for state Medicaid programs.
Medicaid-Related Provisions in the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999
In December, the President signed into law the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, which includes provisions that will give states additional options for extending Medicaid coverage to working disabled individuals. This memo presents an overview of the eligibility options offered under the new legislation (Publication #2187). A related publication, Medicaid Eligiblity for Individuals with Disabilities (Publication #2150), provides a general overview of federal Medicaid eligibility policy for the low-income disabled population.
National ADAP Monitoring Project: Annual Report March 2000
This report, the fourth in an annual series, provides an overview of the status of state-administered AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). ADAPs, authorized under Title II of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, provide HIV/AIDS-related prescription drugs to low income, uninsured and underinsured individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. For more information on the series see the National ADAP Monitoring Project page.