Research Catalog

Title

Gendered vulnerability : how women work harder to stay in office / Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt.

Author

Lazarus, Jeffrey

Publication

• Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Steigerwalt, Amy, 1976-

Description

226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. For instance, female candidates get less and lower quality coverage from the media; they face more and better quality political opponents; and they receive less support from their political parties. Beyond these purely electoral factors, women face persistent gender biases throughout society, which makes it more difficult for them to succeed and can also lead them to doubt their abilities and qualifications. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections--a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term "gendered vulnerability." Since women feel constant pressure to make sure they can win reelection, they devote more of their time and energy to winning their constituents' favor. For example, women secure more federal spending for their districts and states than men do; women devote more time and energy to constituent services; women introduce more bills and resolutions; and women's policy positions are more responsive to what their voters want. Lazarus and Steigerwalt examine a dozen different facets of legislative behavior, and find that across them all, female embers simply do a better job of representing their constituents than male members."--

Series Statement

Legislative politics & policy making

Uniform Title

Legislative politics & policy making.

Subject

• Women > Political activity > United States
• Women in public life > United States
• Women public officers > United States
• Sex discrimination against women > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

Call Number

JFE 18-4851

ISBN

• 0472130714
• 9780472130719

LCCN

40028126646

OCLC

1012345320

Author

Lazarus, Jeffrey, author.

Title

Gendered vulnerability : how women work harder to stay in office / Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt.

Publisher

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Legislative politics & policy making

Legislative politics & policy making.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

Added Author

Steigerwalt, Amy, 1976- author.

Other Standard Identifier

40028126646

Research Call Number

JFE 18-4851