Women Don't Run? Election Aversion and Candidate Entry

By K. Kanthak, Jonathan Woon. 2015

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research

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What Have We Learned about Gender from Candidate Choice Experiments? A Meta-Analysis of Sixty-Seven Factorial Survey Experiments (2021, background): “Women might not aspire to run for of ﬁ ce at the same rates as men (Kanthak and Woon 2015; Lawless and Fox 2010).”
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics (2018, positive): “…the geographical and time constraints on women’s participation (Campbell and Childs 2014; Silbermann 2015); and psychological elements, including a lack of ambition and political efficacy (Fox and Lawless 2004; 2014; Shames 2017), and aversion to participating in elections (Kanthak and Woon 2014).”
The Effects of Counterstereotypic Gender Strategies on Candidate Evaluations (2017, background): “Barriers to improving women’s representation include lower levels of political ambition (Lawless, 2012), a gender-based aversion to electoral competition (Kanthak & Woon, 2015), and entry barriers posed by party gatekeepers (Sanbonmatsu, 2006).”
The Contingent Effects of Candidate Sex on Voter Choice (2019, background): “…is that potential female candidates are less likely 23 to view themselves as qualified, are less willing to endure the demands of campaigning, and are less likely to be recruited than are men in similar circumstances (Kanthak and Woon 2015; Lawless 2012; Lawless and Fox 2005; Sanbonmatsu 2006).”
Why women don’t run: Experimental evidence on gender differences in political competition aversion (2015, background): “another potential source of the observed gender imbalance: women shy away from politics due to its competitive nature (Preece and Stoddard, 2015; Kanthak and Woon, 2015).”