I support giving women early seed money to offset the vicious cycle of gender bias killing fundraising potential, but I don't think it's been offered w/o racial bias, & people have, w/some reason, seen it as a quasi arm of Dem party leadership (e.g. its founder, a white IBM heiress, was co-chair of Clinton's lost primary vs Obama) Butler was brought in to re-brand
https://splinternews.com/how-emily-s-list-lost-its-way-1823399658 https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/emilys-list-laura-moser-texas-congress/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150205222842/http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/can-emily-s-list-get-its-mojo-back--20080628
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/05/laphonza-butler-emilys-list-women-political-power https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1037120336/how-does-the-new-leader-of-emilys-list-plan-to-get-democratic-women-elected