TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Sue AU - Wilcox,Clyde TI - Women and elective office: past, present, and future SN - 0195112318 AV - HQ1391.U5 W63 1998 U1 - 320.0820973 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Women in public life KW - United States KW - Women KW - Political activity KW - Women political candidates N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-234) and index; The bottleneck: women becoming candidates / Georgia Duehrst-Lahti -- Campaign finance: women's experience in the modern era / Barbara Burrell -- Gender, political advertising, and the "air wars" / Leonard Williams -- Voter reaction to women candidates / Elizabeth Adell Cook -- Are all women state legislators alike? / Kathleen Dolan and Lynne E. Ford -- Are women state legislators different? / John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell -- The geography of gender power: women in state legislatures / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox -- Women at the national level: an update on roll-call voting behavior / Janet Clark -- Representing women's interests in the U.S. House of Representatives / Debra L. Dodson -- African-American women in state elective office in the South / Marsha J. Darling -- The feminization of leadership in state legislatures / Marcia Lynn Whicker and Malcolm Jewell -- Getting things done: women committee chairpersons in state legislatures / Cindy Simon Rosenthal -- In a different voice: women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene -- Into the twenty-first century: will women break the political glass ceiling / Jean Reith Schroedel and Nicola Mazumdar ER -