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Women in Municipal Office
Women Mayors of Cities over 30,000
Women Mayors of the Top 100 Most Populous Cities
  • Entering the Mayor’s Office: Women’s Decisions to Run for Municipal Office

    by Susan J. Carroll and Kira Sanbonmatsu
    Paper presented at the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting

    This paper investigates the routes that women take to the mayor’s office in big cities (with populations of 30,000 and above) using the 2008 CAWP Mayoral Recruitment Study. The authors investigate the backgrounds of women mayors and their decisions to seek municipal office for the first time.

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    Candidates and Campaigns
    Candidate Recruitment
    Local
  • CAWP Recruitment Studies Datasets

    The 2008 Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) Recruitment Studies are studies of United States state legislators' and mayors' pathways to office that were conducted by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Data about state legislators and mayors of big cities were gathered through survey instruments that consisted primarily of questions concerning the decision to seek office, previous political experience, and personal background. The studies, which were conducted by mail, web, and phone, were designed to replicate a 1981 CAWP study about gender and pathways to

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    CAWP Scholar
    Candidate Recruitment
    State Legislature
    Local
  • The Impact of Women in Public Office

    Edited by Susan J. Carroll 
    Indiana University Press, 2001, 256 pages

    The studies in this book examine the impact of women public officials serving in various offices and locales at local, state, and national levels.  Order from Amazon and a percentage of the sale goes to CAWP.

    Book
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    Impact of Women Public Officials
    State Legislature
    Local
    Statewide Executive
    Congress
  • Gender and Policymaking: Studies of Women in Office

    Ed. Debra L. Dodson 
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1991, 133 pages

    This collection of essays investigates the impact of elected and appointed women officeholders at the local, state, and national levels.

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    Women Political Appointees
    Impact of Women Public Officials
    State Legislature
    Local
    Congress
  • Women in Municipal Management: Choice, Challenge and Change

    by Ruth Ann Burns with Lora L. Fong and Susan Fuhrman
    1980, 210 pages
     

    This report about research conducted under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development identifies and documents the routes of opportunity, credentialing requirements, necessary skills, barriers, and support systems related to the recruitment, hiring, and promotion of women as municipal managers. It also examines the relationship between elected women and women administrators serving in the same communities.

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    Local
  • Profile of Women Holding Office II

    by Marilyn Johnson and Susan Carroll with Kathy Stanwick and Lynn Korenblit
    Center for American Women and Politics, 1978, 71 pages

    CAWP produced the first-ever directories of U.S. elected women, who were surveyed in 1975 and 1977. The directories included names, addresses and background data. Each directory included a statistical essay, also published as stand-alone documents, examining the numbers, personal characteristics, political backgrounds, issue orientations, and ambitions of women in federal, state, county, and local government as reported in the surveys. 

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    CAWP Scholar
    State Legislature
    Local
    Statewide Executive
    Congress
  • Profile of Women Holding Office I

    by Marilyn Johnson and Kathy Stanwick
    Center for American Women and Politics, 1976, 37 pages
     

    CAWP produced the first-ever directories of U.S. elected women, who were surveyed in 1975 and 1977. The directories included names, addresses and background data. Each directory included a statistical essay, also published as stand-alone documents, examining the numbers, personal characteristics, political backgrounds, issue orientations, and ambitions of women in federal, state, county, and local government as reported in the surveys. 

    Report
    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    State Legislature
    Local
    Statewide Executive
    Congress