Impact of Women Public Officials

  • Representing Women: Congresswomen's Perceptions of Their Representational Roles

    by Susan J. Carroll, 2000, 12 pages

    This report assesses the extent to which women members of Congress see themselves and act as surrogate representatives for women who may live beyond the borders of their districts. (Data based on larger CAWP report on women members of the 103rd and 104th Congresses.)

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  • Voices, Views, Votes: Women in the 103rd Congress

    by Debra L. Dodson, Susan J. Carroll, Ruth B. Mandel, Katherine E. Kleeman, Ronnee Schreiber, and Debra Liebowitz
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1995, 32 pages

    This report examines how the women in the 103rd Congress acted to shape the content of legislation, to build support for bills, and to create a political environment in which they could effect change. 

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  • "The Politics of Difference: Women Public Officials as Agents of Change"

    by Susan J. Carroll
    Stanford Law and Policy Review, Spring 1994

    Because women bring a different set of life experiences into the political arena that affects their behavior as public officials, voters have good reason to view women politicians as agents of change.
     

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  • Reshaping the Agenda: Women in State Legislatures

    by Debra L. Dodson and Susan J. Carroll
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1991, 122 pages

    This report examines gender differences among state legislators in their policy views, actions, and perspectives on the legislative process. 

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  • Findings at a Glance: Impact of Women in Public Office

    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1991, 8 pages
     

    A summary report on the information from the Impact of Women in Public Office series. 

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  • 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
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  • The Impact of Women in Public Office: An Overview

    by Debra L. Dodson, Susan J. Carroll, and Ruth B. Mandel
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1991, 32 pages

    This report highlights and summarizes selected findings from CAWP's study of women state legislators and from the eleven CAWP-sponsored studies of women officeholders' impact conducted by individual scholars. 

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  • Women, Black, and Hispanic State Elected Leaders: The 1990 Symposium on the State of the States

    Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 
    Center for Public Service, University of Virginia
    1991, 106 pages

    In December 1990, more than sixty statewide officials, state legislators, other practitioners and scholars gathered for the fourth annual State of the States symposium. The symposium focused on the problems and possibilities that exist for women, Black and Hispanic elected officials. Issues discussed included campaigning and elections, changing political institutions, shaping state policy, and achieving leadership positions. Workshop summaries and participating scholars' papers are included in the report. 

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    Gender and Race/Ethnicity
    Impact of Women Public Officials
    State Legislature
    Statewide Executive
  • Elected Women Organize: Statewide Associations

    by Wendy S. Strimling 
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1986, 40 pages 

    This report examines the status of statewide associations of elected women in twelve states. The associations bring women together across party lines and from all levels of office.

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  • Political Women Tell What It Takes

    by Kathy A. Stanwick
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    1983, 37 pages

    This report focuses on the roles that political parties, women's organizations, and individual women have played in recruiting and supporting women candidates and appointees. 

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    Political Parties
    Civic and Political Activism
    Candidate Recruitment
    Women Political Appointees
    Impact of Women Public Officials