Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sue Thomas
  • 1. Campaign financing : women's experience in the modern era / Barbara Burrell
  • 2. How the public views women candidates / Kathleen Dolan
  • 3. Women candidates for Congress / Heather L. Ondercin, Susan Welch
  • 4. Different portraits, different leaders? : gender differences in U.S. senators' presentation of self / Kim L. Fridkin, Gina Serignese Woodall
  • 5. Do women and men state legislators differ? / Michael J. Epstein, Richard G. Niemi, Lynda W. Powell
  • 6. Women in Congress : do they act as advocates for women's issues? / Michele L. Swers, Carin Larson
  • 7. Making a difference : behind the scenes / Debra L. Dodson
  • 8. Indelible effects : the impact of women of color in the U.S. Congress / Lisa García Bedolla, Katherine Tate, Janelle Wong
  • 9. Change in continuity in the geography of women state legislators / Barbara Norrander, Clyde Wilcox
  • 10. Women leading legislatures : getting there and getting things done / Cindy Simon Rosenthal
  • 11. In a different voice : women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene
  • 12. Institutional gendering : theoretical insights into the environment of women officeholders / Georgia Duerst-Lahti
  • 13. Women as political leaders worldwide : cultural barriers and opportunities / Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
  • 14. Prospects for cracking the political glass ceiling : the future of women officeholders in the twenty-first century / Jean Reith Schroedel, Marcia L. Godwin.