Earlier this month, the Women of South Florida Victory Fund held a fund-raiser featuring Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House leader, to benefit four women seeking House seats. One of those women, Lauren Baer, a Harvard and Oxford-educated lawyer who worked in the Obama administration, has showcased her wife and their young children in her campaign literature. That, she said, has helped her raise money not only from politically connected friends, but from many women and members of the L.G.B.T.Q. Earlier this month, a woman involved in her campaign invited 40 other mothers to her house for a fund-raiser at 8:30 in the morning. “I think when people start seeing more women run and win, more will invest.”

Source: New York Times October 30, 2018 09:00 UTC