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The Limits of Gendered Leadership: Policy Implications of Female Leadership on “Women's Issues”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2013

Dana E. Wittmer  and
Vanessa Bouché
Dana E. Wittmer
Affiliation:
Colorado College
Vanessa Bouché
Affiliation:
Texas Christian University
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Over the course of the last thirty years, women have made significant strides toward gender equity in politics. The percentage of women serving in state legislatures has risen from 8.1% in 1975 to more than 24% in 2013 (CAWP 2013). Not surprisingly, this increase of women in politics has sparked many questions and much research about the impact of women in public office (Carroll 2001). While this body of scholarship has investigated such important and diverse topics as legislative strategies (Reingold 1996), conversational dynamics (Kathlene 1994; Pearson and Dancey 2011), and legislative effectiveness (Anzia and Berry 2011; Volden, Wiseman, and Wittmer 2013), the substantive effects of having women in office have garnered the most attention.

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Politics & Gender , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 245 - 275
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2013 

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