IWHJ Podcast: She Should Run Founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro
Interview by Polina Selyutin and Brianne Perleberg // Episode 48
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About Erin:
Erin Loos Cutraro knows a lot of amazing women. One thing always bothered her, though: None of the amazing women she knew were running for elected office. She wanted to change that, so she launched She Should Run, a non-partisan organization focused on increasing the number of women running for one of the more than 500,000 elected offices in the United States.
“I’m constantly encouraging people around me to run for office. They’ll always look at me and be like, ‘Come on. None of us have any time. I don’t even have time to take a shower! What are you talking about, run for office?’ It just gives us even greater purpose in the work we do at She Should Run,” Erin says. “ … We have to show the examples of how incredible women leaders are pulling this off.”
She Should Run was founded in 2008 as a way to tackle the gender gap within politics. The organization was built to fill the void in resources for women looking to run for office for the first time. After all, Erin found that a barrier existed: Women were not being recruited to run for office at the same rate as men. “We wanted to create a safe space for women to see what was possible,” Erin says.
What started with a simple “Ask A Woman To Run” program has since led to research about other barriers women face in the electoral process — like sexism and political giving. Then last year before Election Day, the organization launched the She Should Run Incubator — where community meets resources looking for women coming to politics for the first time.
Now, She Should Run has encouraged nearly 40,000 women to run for office through its efforts and is in the process of helping more than 11,000 women who have indicated interest in preparing for a political office.
In episode 48 of I Want Her Job: The Podcast, Host Polina Selyutin and Founder Brianne Perleberg speak with Erin about gender bias in politics, why more women should run for elected office and dive deep on the research She Should Run has teamed up to conduct along with others. And all three women share why they think more women should run. Maybe you should, too?! In fact, Erin says, She Should Run’s research shows that when women run, they win at the same rate men do!
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