Gender in Campaigns for the U.s. House of Representatives

Barbara Burrell presents a comprehensive comparative examination of men's and women's candidacies for the US House of Representatives in elections from 1994 through 2012. Analysing extensive data sets on all major party candidates for 10 elections Burrell finds little evidence of categorical discrimination against women candidates.

About the author

Barbara Burrell is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, USA where she was a member of the Political Science faculty and a faculty associate in the Women's Studies Program. She is the author of A Woman's Place Is in the House: Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era (University of Michigan Press, 1994), a landmark study of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives from 1968 through 1992.

Summary

An in-depth study of women congressional candidates over the past two decades

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Burrell
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2014
• EAN: 9780472052318
• ISBN: 978-0-472-05231-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cawp Series in Gender and Amer; The Cawp Series in Gender and American Politics; The Cawp Series in Gender and American Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research