In search of more books...

So this week I am running out of my inspiration and honestly had no idea what to write, but I decided to search for more book about women in government. 

The first position is It Takes a Candidate Why Women Don't Run for Office by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard Logan Fox. Obviously I haven’t read it yet, so I found a description of the book and in proves to be quite promising. So here it is “This important work constitutes a systematic, nationwide empirical account of the effects of gender on political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey of 3,800 "potential candidates" conducted by the authors, it relates these findings: --Women, even at the highest levels of professional accomplishment, are significantly less likely than men to demonstrate ambition to run for elective office. --Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office. --Women are less likely than men to consider themselves "qualified" to run for office. --Women are less likely than men to express a willingness to run for a future office. According to the authors, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations, despite contemporary society's changing attitudes towards female candidates. While other treatments of gender in the electoral process focus on candidates and office holders, It Takes a Candidate makes a unique contribution to political studies by focusing on the earlier stages of the candidate emergence process and on how gender affects the decision to seek elective office.”

The second one is It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox.  “It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 “potential candidates” in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find that women, even in the highest tiers of professional accomplishment, are substantially less likely than men to demonstrate ambition to seek elective office. Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office. They are less likely than men to think they are qualified to run for office. And they are less likely than men to express a willingness to run for office in the future. This gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time. Despite cultural evolution and society’s changing attitudes toward women in politics, running for public office remains a much less attractive and feasible endeavor for women than men.”

The third one is Sex as a Political Variable: Women as Candidates and Voters in U.S. Elections by Richard Seltzer, Jody Newman, Melissa Voorhees Leighton. “Though women constitute 52 percent of US voters, only 10 percent of the members of Congress and one of the 50 state governors are women. This book presents research and analysis on women as both candidates and voters in US politics, using numerous empirical sources of data.”

 I guess that’s it for today. I’m really hoping to get inspired and start working on the first chapter of my BA Thesis. Wish me luck.

K.