She Should Run, working with the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), found that women still lag drastically behind men in political giving. The report, released Tuesday by She Should Run (SSR) and the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), found that women represented just 26 percent of the total given to candidates, political action committees (PACs) and party committees in 2010, down from 31 percent in 2008 and 27 percent in 2006. They aren’t giving politically.” 
 
 The report explains that the best way to get women involved is to make the connection between women’s political dollars and the issues about which they are concerned. In 2010, women made 30% of the total individual contributions to Democrats and just 25% of the total contributions to Republican candidates 
 
 Women made just 21% of the total contributions to PACs in 2010, down 1.8 percentage points from 2008 
 
 Women made 38% of the 2010 individual contributions to the Democratic National Committee, while women made 24% of contributions to the Republican National Committee 
 
 Despite the gender gap in political giving, female candidates are good fundraisers. The report reveals that in 2010, on average, female House incumbents raised about $100,000 more than their male colleagues, and female challengers raised over $74,000 more than male peers.
– Less than a third of political donations come from women, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the money given to candidates, political action committees, and party committees in 2010 and discovered that only 26% of federal contributions came from female donors, a dip from 31% in 2008, and 27% in 2006, reports the Daily Caller. “Women are far more motivated to want to see changes in their neighborhood and city on a social level than men are, but they have not yet made that connection [with politics],” says the president of the group She Should Run, which co-released the study. “In fact, women, far more than men, see the hard, sausage-making dimension of politics as something they are not willing to be engaged in. They find it distasteful.”