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How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates
Westview Press
July 2003
On Sale: July 1, 2003
200 pages
ISBN: 081339841X
EAN: 9780813398419
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why. Women comprise an ever-increasing percentage of the candidate pool for elective office in the United States. Public opinion surveys profess strong support for female candidates, yet many of these same candidates still encounter skepticism (at best) or hostility (at worst) from the public. The role of candidate gender in elections is a complex one. Yet, our understanding of how voters react to these women is often based on election-specific, anecdotal, or hypothetical evidence. Voting for Womenis one of the first book-length treatments of both how the public evaluates female candidates and whether and when people will support them at the polls. It also provides a history of women and elections in the U.S. and analysis of contemporary data on how voting environments can influence womenβs success.
 Media BuzzNewsHour with Jim Lehrer - August 16, 2007
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