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  • Can More Women Run? Reevaluating Women’s Election to the State Legislatures

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

    Do men and women take similar or different paths to public office? This paper examines the occupational and educational backgrounds, family situations, and prior political experiences of women state legislators and their male counterparts. 

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  • Negotiating Gender: Campaign Practitioners’ Reflections on Gender, Strategy, and Campaigns

    by Kelly Dittmar
    Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC

     This paper explores the variation among and between campaign consultant perspectives, highlighting areas where gender matters more or less and recognizing the influence of consultants’ identities on their perceptions of gender and campaigns. As political actors with a growing presence and influence on campaigns, political consultants provide important insight to the campaign process and the gender dynamics therein. This insight contributes to a deeper understanding of campaigns as gendered institutions, whereby gender norms and expectations are embedded in the culture, structure, and processes of electoral politics.

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