He Runs, She Runs : : Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates / / Deborah Jordan Brooks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Brooks, Deborah Jordan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 18 tables.

While there are far more women in public office today than in previous eras, women are still vastly underrepresented in this area relative to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that a key reason is because female candidates start out at a disadvantage with the public, compared to male candidates, and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Theoretical Foundations
• Chapter 3. How to Study Gender Stereotype Usage and Double Standards in Campaigns
• Chapter 4. Descriptive Candidate Gender Stereotypes and the Role of Candidate Experience
• Chapter 5. Tears and Anger on the Campaign Trail
• Chapter 6. Unbinding the Double Bind
• Chapter 7. Knowledge Gaffes
• Chapter 8. Reassessing the Parity Problem
• Chapter 9. A Bright Future for Women in Politics
• Appendix 1: Text of Newspaper Treatments
• Appendix 2: Questionairre
• Appendix 3: How the Public Responds to Each Behavior
• Appendix 4: How the Public Responds to Candidate Experience(not considering candidate gender)
• Appendix 5: Results for Candidate Experience Candidate Gender
• Appendix 6: Results for Candidate Gender (Control Group only)
• Appendix 7: Results for Crying Candidate Gender
• Appendix 8: Results for Anger Candidate Gender
• Appendix 9: Results for Toughness Candidate Gender
• Appendix 10: Results for Lack of Empathy Candidate Gender
• Appendix 11: Results for Knowledge Gaffe Candidate Gender
• References
• Index