The impact of women in public office /
This volume examines the impact of women public officials serving in various offices and locales at local, state, and national levels. The essays included originated in a research project sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. The subjects range from a very pr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2001.
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| ISBN: | 025310906X 9780253109064 025334008X 9780253340085 0253214882 9780253214881 |
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Table of Contents:
- Representing women : women state legislators as agents of policy-related change / Susan J. Carroll
- Words that matter : women's voice and institutional bias in public policy formation / Lyn Kathlene
- Acting as women : the effects and limitations of gender in local governance / Susan Abrams Beck
- Local elected women and policy-making : movement delegates or feminist trustees? / Janet K. Boles
- "Senator-at-large for America's women" : Margaret Chase Smith and the paradox of gender affinity / Janann Sherman
- Foreign policy decision makers : the impact of gender / Nancy E. McGlen and Meredith Reid Sarkees
- Do women leaders make a difference? Substance, style, and perceptions / Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
- The impact of women in state legislatures : numerical and organizational strength / Sue Thomas and Susan Welch
- Black women in state legislatures : the relationship of race and gender to the legislative experience / Edith J. Barrett
- Feminist judges : challenging the status quo / Elaine Martin
- Acting for women : is what legislators say, what they do? / Debra L. Dodson.