It takes a candidate : why women don't run for office / Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox.
Serving as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition, and based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey conducted on almost 3,800 potential candidates, this looks at why women are less likely than men to d...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Electoral politics : still a man's world?
- Representation, equality, and the study of gender in electoral politics
- Traditional gender socialization in the context of U.S. politics : the central argument and its implications
- Traditional family role orientations
- Masculinized ethos
- Gendered psyche
- Organization of the book
- 2. Explaining women's emergence in the political arena
- Women and elective politics : the numbers
- Existing explanations for women's underrepresentation
- Societal rejection and cultural evolution : the discrimination explanation
- Institutional inertia : the incumbency explanation
- The candidate eligibility pool : the pipeline explanation
- The missing piece : developing a theory of gender and political ambition
- The citizen political ambition study
- 3. The gender gap in political ambition
- Very much the same : gender, political participation, and political interest
- Very much different : gender and political ambition
- Stage one : considering a candidacy
- Stage two : deciding to enter the first race
- The "winnowing effect"
- The gender gap in elective office preferences
- Conclusion
- 4. Barefoot, pregnant, and holding a law degree : family dynamics and running for office
- Raised to be a candidate?
- Eligible candidates' family structure and roles
- Wife, mother, and candidate? : family roles as impediments to political ambition
- Are times changing? : generational differences in political ambition
- Conclusion
- 5. Gender, party, and political recruitment
- Eligible candidates' political attitudes and partisanship
- Who gets asked to run for office?
- Political recruitment and considering a candidacy
- Conclusion
- 6. "I'm just not qualified" : gendered self-perceptions of candidate viability
- The impact of self-perceived qualifications on political ambition
- Explanations for the gender gap in self-perceived qualifications
- The sexist environment
- Gender differences in defining political qualifications
- Different yardsticks for gauging political qualifications
- Conclusion
- 7. Taking the plunge : deciding to run for office
- Why would anyone run for office? : negative perceptions of the electoral environment and campaign process
- Gender and the decision to enter a race
- A side note on political culture and "structural" factors
- Prospective interest in running for office
- Conclusion
- 8. Gender and the future of electoral politics
- Summarizing the findings and forecasting women's representation
- Recasting the study of gender and elections
- Appendix A. The citizen political ambition study sample design and data collection
- Appendix B. The survey
- Appendix C. The interview questionnaire
- Appendix D. Variable coding.