Gender and the Decision to Run for Office

By R. Fox, Jennifer L. Lawless, Courtney Feeley. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics (2018, unknown): “…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).”
• Why women don’t run: Experimental evidence on gender differences in political competition aversion (2015, background): “Although a small number of studies haves found no differences in ambition between men nd women in samples of politicians and politically active individuals (Carroll, 1985; Fox et al., 2001), most find persistently ower levels of leadership ambition among women.”