text: RWRN – RSLC
  About RSLC RWRN
  The Republican State Leadership Committee's (RSLC) Right Women, Right Now (RWRN) initiative serves to identify, recruit, train and support new women state-level candidates nationwide in order to help elect more Republican leaders who better embody the electorate of our country, where women are 53 percent of the voters. RWRN offers candidate trainings, mentorship matchings and digital organizing tools for our candidates' campaigns for state-level office. Since its founding in 2012, RWRN has recruited hundreds of women candidates, elected 386 new women to office and continues working to grow the largest caucus of Republican elected women in the country.
  • In the 2015-2016 election cycle, RWRN shattered its recruitment goal of 500 candidates by identifying and recruiting 690 new, women candidates to run for state-level office. RWRN saw 163 of those candidates appointed or elected in 37 states. In partnership with the RSLC's Future Majority Project (FMP), which aims to elect candidates from all diverse communities, RWRN invested $7 million to see these candidates elected.
  • Republicans outnumber Democrats in women lieutenant governors (seven to Democrats' five) following the 2016 election of Indiana's Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch. Seven Republican women also serve in the role of secretary of state.
  • During the 2013-2014 cycle, RWRN invested $6 million in partnership with the RSLC's Future Majority Project (FMP) to elect 138 new women to state-level office. Overall they identified and recruited 558 candidates before primaries in 45 states.
  • In the 2012 cycle, RWRN identified and recruited 185 new Republican women candidates from 36 states, elected 84 new Republican women to state office and invested more than $5 million in support of women and diverse candidates – in partnership with FMP.
  • RWRN makes several resources broadly available to RWRN candidates, including: trainings, reduced-cost websites, strategic advice and mentorships with current elected officials.
  A 2011 study by professors Jennifer Lawless and Richard Fox reveals that among several reasons why more women do not run for public office, not being asked is one of them. The gender gap that exists in recruiting favors men over women by 7 to 10 percentage points. We must change this. Whether the suggestion to run comes from someone outside of politics or someone inside, more men than women are being encouraged to seek public office. Republican leaders need to do a better job of encouraging, supporting and training new and different candidates for office.Right Women, Right Now will continue to find women in communities across the nation, encourage and support their run for state office and put them on the path to elected leadership.