New campaign school aims to get more Texas women to run for office

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The Dallas Morning News previewed the LBJ Women's Campaign School: "Women are nearly half of the workforce in the U.S. and are shouldering much of the frontline work during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from The Associated Press.

"But they're not always calling the shots because, when it comes to politics, they're still underrepresented compared with men.

"That's why the new LBJ Women's Campaign School at the University of Texas at Austin aims to get more women to run for office or to run political campaigns."

 

Read the full article at the Dallas Morning News.