More women than ever before won major party primaries for Congress and governor this year, giving them the chance to significantly increase their numbers in office.
There are liberal women aplenty who want to run for office, but conservative women have been harder to find.
Turns out women are active in both parties. But their activism takes different forms.
Uyen Nguyen is laying the groundwork for women to run for political office, some 32 years after immigrating from her native Vietnam.
“I came to the United States thinking that there is so much equality and opportunity for everyone in this country,” said Nguyen. “And the 2016 election really just disrupted that belief for me.
And I just didn’t see any other way to resolve it than to get really involved in the process.”
She turned to social media.
“I wanted to start a fund to help women and minorities get elected to public office,” she said. “And for me the big thing was around women because women being 51% of the population (and) is very much oppressed in this country.”
Out of that came Emerge Washington, a non-profit foundation whose sole goal is putting more women into public office.
“Women are not…
