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

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

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

Real Women Run is an innovative feminist ethnography that consists of a series of linked essays and presentations about women who run at the intersections of qu

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