Publications

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

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. 

Conventional descriptions of how New Jersey women secured the right to vote in the late eighteenth century, and of the extent to which they took advantage of that right, tend to be incomplete. Moreover, the subsequent disenfranchisement of women was not principally a product of corruption in an 1807 Essec County referendum, as some maintain, as much as it was the result of a shift in the balance of power within the state.

This chapter examines how the contemporary women's movement posed a challenge to the entrenched system of patriarchal relations that characterizes Western societies and the socialization processes that help maintain that system. Carroll describes the feminist movement as an agent of political socialization. 

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.

A report from CAWP's first conference for women holding legislative leadership positions, including committee chairs, held in November of 1985 in New Jersey. 

This monograph documents the formation and activities in 1981 and 1982 of New Jersey's Bipartisan Coalition for Women's Appointments, an ad hoc group organized after CAWP convened a meeting of politically active women to discuss how to get more women appointed to state-level posts.

Based on data collected through surveys of women and men elected to state legislatures, county governing boards, and municipal offices, this report examines the factors which influence women's entry into elective offices. A major section focuses on black women's routes to elective office.

This monograph, based on information gathered at a meeting with representatives of fourteen political action committees which solely or primarily support women candidates, describes some of the key questions faced by such groups, and illustrates the varied ways in which they have answered these questions.