PSC 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sacrificial Lamb, Role Model

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Gender and the decision to run for office
Confidence gap
Women underestimate qualifications
Pipeline theory:
Women hold certain occupations, leading them to be more politically
involved
Lower offices - local, community
Why? Women are less confident than men
Internalize failure (I failed)
Externalize success (they helped me succeed)
Women need…
Encouragement
Recruitment
Political parties
Historically:
Volunteer role
Development lack
Sacrificial lamb
Perceptions of candidates
Women are less likely to be perceived as candidate-material
3rd parties:
Devotion to reform cause
Prohibition
Cleaning gov’t
New voting bloc?
Party Reforms
1968 - democrat national convention pushed for more women in politics
Recruitment efforts: to get women to run for office
Off the Sidelines PAC
Maggie’s List
She should Run
Political Parity
Family constraints
Balancing life and work
Local offices
Inflexible schedule of a politician
Not as important today
Women have more obligations to family than men
Its atypical for women in office to have young children, but typical for men
Symbolic representation
Role model effect:
Previously excluded groups will find politics is more legitimate when
they see more people that look like them in office
Research findings: mixed
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