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"If you're a woman who is thinking about running for office and don't know where to start, we are here to lay down the groundwork for you, support you and encourage you," says Pereira.

“Women across the country are asking—not just asking, but demanding—to have environments where they can have full participation,” says Clare Bresnahan English, executive director of She Should Run, a nonprofit that trains women to run for office.

“Throughout history, women have been a catalyst to change,” Cutraro said.

“There’s a part of raising consciousness and getting more engaged in politics that is necessary for each of us to lend our voices,” Bresnahan English said. "A lot of women are realizing it can’t be about one woman’s race or one seat."

The coalition, which includes Empowered Women, Higher Heights, Ignite, LatinasRepresent, RepresentWomen, She Should Run, VoteRunLead and Women Influencers Network, will look for data-driven approaches to “achieve parity in politics for women from across the ideological, racial, ethnic and geographic spectrum.”

For the first time in its 200–year history, Johnnie Walker’s iconic Striding Man will have a remarkable female companion—one who dresses, walks, and conveys confidence in just the same fashion, if not more so. And her name is Jane. Although I do have to let my bias as a woman known: I’m inclined to think that Jane’s strutting and striding is far superior to Johnnie’s.

Sofia Pereira, the community manager for political advocacy group She Should Run, saw that disparity first-hand. "I've worked on campaigns from the local to the congressional level," she says in an interview with Elite Daily. "I definitely recognize that there has been underrepresentation of women in campaign work."

Reigning Olympic triathlon champion Gwen Jorgensen is all-in for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in pursuit of women’s marathon gold.

Eating ice cream for breakfast is obviously good for the soul, but this year, it's also good for women in politics.

“It’s so hard to break through and to increase the number of individuals that are engaged at the polls. My hope is that changes. I think that if we continue to see momentum, which we are, and [have] individuals stepping up and becoming more informed, and knowing that their voice matters — not only at their city council meeting and by running for office, but also at the ballot box —[it] will most definitely have a positive affect on overall voter turnout.”

“Talking with a lot of our Republican stakeholders and our Republican members…it is a difficult time to be a young Republican woman,” Bresnahan English said in an interview with Refinery29. “They have different policy perspectives, and it’s been difficult for them to find exactly what the right place is for them in terms of party infrastructure.”