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 prominent US Senator who served from the early 1940s to the 1970s, to members of a New Jersey county council in the 1980s, to state legislators from across the country
1 online resource (xxvi, 256 pages)
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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