Press Release
SC Women in Leadership (WIL) is hosting their annual Spring Training multi-partisan campaign training for women as a four-workshop series in six locations around South Carolina, as well as virtually, beginning February 11, 2023. Multi-partisan presenters with extensive campaign experience will introduce women candidates and campaign volunteers to what they need to know to run for office including choosing your office, building a campaign team, finance and fundraising, messaging and the media, helping with a campaign, and practical advice from former and current female candidates and elected officials.
WIL is a statewide multi-partisan organization working to increase the number of women in elected office and on public appointed boards and commissions in South Carolina. While women represent 51% of the population of South Carolina, the state dropped to 48th in the nation for the proportion of women in the state legislature after the November 2022 election, with only 14% of our General Assembly composed of women and only one woman elected to a statewide position. From the school board to the Governor's Mansion, we need more qualified women to run for elected office in the 2023 and 2024 election cycles.
“Women don't run for a lot of reasons,” says S.C. State Senator Katrina Shealy. “Women don't run because of the financial part. It's hard to raise money. Women don't run because of their family. … You know, they're the ones who know what a budget is, buy the groceries, teach the kids. Why don't you (men) go home and do that, and let your wife come up here?” Research also shows that women don't run because no one asks them to. Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office, so WIL is asking and providing training, resources, and information to help women overcome real and perceived social and cultural barriers to leadership.
WIL encourages all women who have thought about running for office to attend, even if a run is a ‘maybe’ in the distant future. Spring Training will help potential women candidates decide if a run for office is the right move and help them plan, if the answer is ‘yes.”
Schedule
Locations
Columbia
Charleston
PeeDee Area
Greenville
Greenwood
Spartanburg
Registration is $25 per session, or bundle all four sessions for $100. Registration includes refreshments and a t-shirt. Some scholarships are available. Visit scwomenlead.net/event/spring-
Spring Training is made possible through the support of Duke Energy, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Ready to Run at the Center for American Women in Politics, and Pivotal Ventures.
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