Journal article
Women and Representation: A Different View of the District?
Politics & gender, Vol.3(2), pp.179-200
06/2007
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X07000025
Abstract
In this article we measure the impact of gender on women's legislative behavior by utilizing a unique research design. We compare whether women and men of the same political party represent the same congressional district differently with respect to women's issues. Using bill sponsorship and floor remarks during the 104th to 107th sessions of the U.S. House of Representatives as measures of legislative behavior, we find that female legislators who replace men in the same district introduce more women's issues bills in Congress. Although our conclusion that women legislators represent women's issues more frequently in the House supports existing research, our results do so in a new and more effective way by controlling for the competing explanations of party identification and district opinion as factors determining a legislator's behavior.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Women and Representation: A Different View of the District?
- Creators
- Jessica C Gerrity - Washington CollegeTracy Osborn - University of IowaJeanette Morehouse Mendez - Oklahoma State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Politics & gender, Vol.3(2), pp.179-200
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1743923X07000025
- ISSN
- 1743-923X
- eISSN
- 1743-9248
- Number of pages
- 22
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2007
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9983988982702771
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