1991: CAWP releases The Impact of Women in Public Office

CAWP releases The Impact of Women in Public Office, a series of three reports of research conducted under the second grant from the Revson Foundation. Monographs in the series include:

• Reshaping the Agenda: Women in State Legislatures, which presents findings from telephone surveys of women and men serving in state legislatures across the country, revealing gender differences in policy attitudes, legislative priorities, and work on women’s rights legislation.
• Gender and Policymaking: Studies of Women in Office, which presents findings from eleven small-scale research projects conducted by scholars across the country focusing on how women serving in a variety of political offices make a difference.
• The Impact of Women in Public Office: An Overview, which highlights major findings from the other two reports.