About She Should Run

She Should Run™ is an online nomination tool and resource center that asks women to consider running for public office.

She Should Run members are a community of women leaders at varying stages of their political lives.

Who Do You Know?

Think About It:

Women run for office because they are asked. Women are 50% less likely than men to seriously consider running for office, and 30% less likely to actually run. Women are one-third less likely than men to view themselves as qualified to run for office, and they are one-third less likley to be asked to run. However, research shows that when women do run, they win at equal rates to men.**  The key to increasing the number of women in political power is asking more women to run.

There are over 500,000 elected positions in America.  Women should hold 250,000 of these positions but only hold fraction. We can change this.

She Should Run is an award-winning program of the Women’s Campaign Forum (WCF). Founded in 1974, WCF is the only non-partisan political venture capitalist organization supporting women leaders at all levels of office, during the earliest stages of their public life. We help She Should Run members to lay the groundwork for a successful run at all levels of public office—from School Board to Congress—regardless of political party.

We’re Talking About You:  

Many of our She Should Run members have never considered running for office before, but they are now. Whether it takes 2 months or 5 years, WCF is committed to encouraging these women to seriously consider running for office by demystifying the process and serving as the conduit for all the great tools and resources available across the country.

She Should Run services include:  

• A copy of WCF’s original publication, The Companion Notebook: Making the Decision to Serve


• Monthly newsletters with campaign tips and members’ perspectives on running for office


• Direct access to the WCF Political Team for guidance and advice


• Access to the WCF network, including special consideration for WCF’s Women Worth Watching and Candidate Endorsement programs


• Campaign Tip Sheets


• Campaign Training Resource Center  

*The Center for American Women in Politics. Poised to Run, 2009.

**Jennifer Lawless & Richard Fox. It Takes a Candidate, 2006.