Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and

Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties n

It Takes a Candidate serves as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from t

Women run for all kinds of reasons. We run for health, to ease tension, for strength, to challenge ourselves, to be social with friends, as professional athlete

The book argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, the candidate's sex plays a minimal role in the majority of US elections.