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CAWP
Reports and Publications
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Working paper on "Gender and Civic Engagement" (2005)
CIRCLE has recently released a new working paper by Krista Jenkins entitled, “Gender and Civic Engagement: Secondary Analysis of Survey Data.” Jenkins explores whether gender is salient in civic engagement. For the most part, she determines that “[y]oung women and men appear to be receiving the same cues about politics, elected officials, and the political process.” While the genders appear to behave in a similar fashion, “young women are distinguishing themselves from young men on some key recursors to engagement, particularly attentiveness and knowledge.”
Women
in State Government: Historical Overview and Current Trends (2004)
The findings in this study done by CAWP senior
scholar Susan J. Carroll raise issues concerning the continued
growth of women's participation in state government. As the
study states, "[w]omen have significantly increased their
numbers among state government
officials over
the past
several
decades. However,
despite a recent increase in the number of women governors,
women’s progress, especially at the statewide elective
and state legislative levels, has slowed....Findings such as
these suggest that the future for women in state government
will depend, at least in part, upon the strength of efforts
to actively recruit women for both elected and appointed positions." This
article is reprinted with permission from The Book of
the States, 2004, published by The Council of State Governments,
Lexington,
KY
2004.
The
Impact of Women in Public Office (2001)
The studies reported in this new book (2001, Indiana University
Press), edited by CAWP senior scholar Susan J. Carroll, examine the
impact of women public officials serving in various offices and locales
at local, state, and national levels. Read more about the book and
find out how to order it from the above link.
Gender
Differences in Print Media Coverage of Presidential Candidates:
Elizabeth Dole's Bid for the Republican Nomination (.pdf) (2000)
This report examines Elizabeth Dole's bid for the Republican presidential
nomination and the ways in which gender bias affected media coverage.
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Women
in the U.S. Congress |
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Legislating
By and For Women:
A Comparison of the 103rd and 104th Congresses (.pdf) (2001)
This report
examines the political work of women legislators in the 103rd and
104th congresses as they attempted to transform their commitment
to represent women into law. The report highlights examples of
the intensive political labor involved in any effort to legislate
for women and explores how women’s needs
and interests are defined in the legislative process. The
authors of the report are Mary Hawkesworth, Debra Dodson, Katherine
E. Kleeman, Kathleen J. Casey and Krista Jenkins.
Representing Women:
Congresswomen's Perceptions of Their Representational
Roles (.pdf) (2000)
This report assesses the extent to which women members of Congress see themselves
and act as surrogate representatives for women who may live beyond the borders
of their districts. (Data based on larger CAWP report on women members of the
103rd and 104th Congresses.)
Voices,
Views, Votes: Women in the 103rd Congress (.pdf) (1995)
This
report examines how the women in the 103rd Congress acted to
shape the content of legislation, to build support for bills,
and to create a political environment in which they could effect
change. The research focuses on five policy areas in which
there was substantial legislative action during the 103rd Congress:
women's health, reproductive rights, health care reform, the
Omnibus Crime Bill, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. |
Women
in State Legislatures |
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Are
U.S. Women State Legislators Accountable to Women?
The Complimentary Roles of Feminist Identity and Women's Organizations (2003)
This report was prepared by Susan J. Carroll, senior
CAWP scholar, for a conference held at St. John's College, University
of Manitoba, in May,
2003. An introductory
paragraph
briefly
describes the report's contents. "While we have
considerable evidence that women legislators give greater
priority
to women’s
issues than their male colleagues, we know less about why they
do so. What is the process underlying the substantive representation
of women
by women legislators? Why does the representation of women by
women legislators happen? This paper examines these questions
with particular attention to the role of women’s organizations
and networks."
Women
State Legislators: Past, Present and Future (.pdf) (2001)
In
2001, with funding from the Barbara Lee Family Foundation,
CAWP surveyed female and male state legislators and compared the new
data with prior
CAWP research findings. The
initial brief research reports include descriptions of women
legislators today and comparisons with their male colleagues
as well as with their 1988 counterparts.
Findings
at a Glance: Summary Report on CAWP's Study of Women State Legislators (.pdf) (1991)
This
report is a brief summary of selected findings from CAWP's study of
women state legislators, Reshaping the Agenda: Women in State Legislatures.
(1988)
Equality
Deferred: Women Candidates for the New Jersey Assembly 1920-1993 (.pdf) (1994)
This
report is a study of women candidates for state legislature in New
Jersey. Written by Richard P. and Katheryne C. McCormick, this report
is specific to New Jersey, although as noted by Ruth B. Mandel, director
of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, in the foreword:
The
McCormicks have identified distinctive features of the political history and
culture of the state that have shaped women's possibilities for political participation.
At the same time, their work is a model for the kind of inquiry that might be
useful in every state.... |
The
Effect of Term Limits on Women and Minorities |
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"Unrealized
Opportunity? Term Limits and the Representation of Women in State
Legislatures" (2001)
A general overview on the effect of term limits
on the numbers of women in elective office. In
this article, using data from the state legislative
elections of 1998 and 2000, Professor
Susan J. Carroll and Krista Jenkins, a research associate at CAWP,examine
empirically the expectation prevalent in the women and politics
literature that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases
in the numbers of women legislators.
"Increasing
Diversity or More of the Same? Term Limits and the
Representation
of Women, Minorities, and Minority Women in State Legislatures" (2001)
A general overview on the effect of term limits on the numbers of women and
minorities in elective office. This paper, written by Professor Susan J. Carroll
and research associate Krista Jenkins, examines
the question of whether term limits lead to greater diversity among legislators
in
terms of
their
gender,
race,
and ethnicity. Their findings
from an analysis of electoral outcomes in states where term limits were in effect
in 1998 and 2000 suggest that the answer to the question of whether term limits
lead to more diverse legislatures is not straightforward.
"The
Impact of Term Limits on Women" (2001)
In an article written by Susan J. Carroll, CAWP Senior Scholar, published in Spectrum:
The Journal of State Government, Fall 2001, information is presented that finds "contrary
to the expectation of term-limit advocates and many scholars, the number of women
serving in term-limited statehouse seats actually decreased following the 1998
and 2000 elections."
Term Limits and the Representation of Women (2001)
In
November, 1999 CAWP convened a meeting in New Brunswick, New Jersey
to examine preliminary data on the impact of term limits on women’s
representation and to explore how women might capitalize upon the political
opportunities created by term limits. CAWP invited representatives
from twelve states in which term limits have already become effective
(Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Michigan,
Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, and South Dakota).
This
monograph, authored by Mary Hawkesworth and Katherine E. Kleeman, reports
on the conference and on early findings about the impact of term limits
on women's representation. |
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