Join us as we recognize and celebrate all the brave South Carolina women who have stepped forward to seek elective and appointive office.
Volunteer for a campaign, find women running in your area, and get the 411 on voting!
Learn tricks of the trade with SC WIL’s new online self-paced training courses.
WIL built and maintains the only comprehensive statewide roster of open seats on appointed public boards and commissions at the municipal, county, and state levels.
Search Available PositionsWIL encourages qualified women to run for office at all levels of government or become engaged in helping with a woman candidate’s campaign.
Get StartedWe are a multi-partisan, multi-racial alliance of women with a mission to move South Carolina forward socially, economically, educationally, and environmentally by sharing information, making connections, and encouraging engagement in local and state leadership opportunities.
The voting process must be transparent, with no unnecessary barriers. To help achieve this crucial part of our democratic process, we focus on the areas of redistricting, voting technology, and vote verification.
Did you know that SC ranks a dismal 47th among the 50 states in the number of women in elected office? Since 2018, we’ve been working to encourage and support more women running for public office.
Political polarization is increasingly intense. We believe that cooperation and respectful conversations can help decrease partisan tensions and that elevating more women in Congress will increase democratic legitimacy and simple justice.
SC Women in Leadership (SC WIL) is celebrating its fifth birthday as an organization and many women gathered on the state house steps Tuesday to show support. Members of the South Carolina Women’s Legislative Caucus, SC WIL Founders and friends were in attendance to acknowledge what the organization has accomplished so far and their plans for the future.
If there’s one thing you hear more these days from women across South Carolina, it’s this: “I am sick and tired of men telling us what to do – what to do with our bodies, what to do with our brains, what to do with our lives.”
So more women are getting active. If they win more elections, South Carolina will be better off.
The 2023 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® will be presented to five women Senators from South Carolina – Katrina Shealy, Margie Bright Matthews, Mia McLeod, Sandy Senn, and Penry Gustafson – who formed a bipartisan coalition to filibuster a near-total abortion ban in their state.
By Sherry Shealy Martschink Way back in my college days, as a teenaged student at Columbia College,…
Published August 2018 Available in the Richland Library collection in print format. Think Like A CEO, Act…
(1883 – 1942) Once women achieved the right to vote in 1920 Lena Springs, from Lancaster, SC, became the first…
