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On Saturday, October 14, at 8 PM, Provincetown Dramatics Arts will present a benefit reading of "An American Daughter," Wendy Wasserstein’s prescient play about how partisan politics, the press, and personal relationships impact the nomination of a woman seeking a top governmental position.

"Erin Loos Cutraro, CEO of She Should Run, a nonpartisan group, says while the overall pace of adding women to elected office is too slow — women, after all, comprise just under 20 percent of Congress."

“As leaders working to strengthen our democracy,” Cutraro said in a press release. “It is our duty to provide the pathway for women today and tomorrow who are stepping up to serve their communities.”

"'We have been overjoyed with the surge of women who have stepped up to say they want to run for office since Election Day,' She Should Run founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro told CNN."

“At current rates, it will take over 100 years to achieve equal representation,” Erin Los Cutraro said...“That is unacceptable, and 250Kby2030 will change that.”

"'Now we need to take the next step to transform that number into the over 250,000 women candidates needed to have women’s voices fully represented on ballots across the country,' said Erin Loos Cutraro, founder and CEO of She Should Run"

Since Election Day 2016, over 15,000 motivated, engaged and qualified women who want to run for office have joined She Should Run, a nonpartisan group aiming to inspire more women to run for office.

She Should Run is launching a radical campaign to achieve gender parity among elected officials by 2030..."We're really taking advantage of this surge and saying, 'Now is our chance to build this path,'"

Having women as political leaders results in better government, more bipartisan ventures and more civility—something we could really use right now.

“We weren’t alone in seeing what was very clearly a surge in women stepping up from all corners of the country, raising their hand and saying ‘okay, I want to do this. Tell me how to run for office.’”

The campaign is called "250kBy2030" and it aims to have women make up half of the 500,000 elected positions in the U.S. within a little less than 13 years. Currently, women only account for less than 25% of those positions and previous research suggests it would take approximately 100 years to achieve gender parity in these.

“When you state your ambition,” Erin Loos Cutraro says, “you then immediately get entered into an ecosystem of placing yourself somewhere that you become top of mind for individuals when an opportunity becomes available.”