This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Thank You Sarah Palin for more Republican women candidates
This election season has had more women republican candidates then before. According to the article Sarah Palin opened the door for these women. Only 73 seats in the House are held by women and in the Senate only 17 are women.
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3 comments:
From reading the article it sounds like the Republican women really have some catching up to do in the House and Senate! I had no idea it was so lopsided.
If you are interested in the lack of female elected officials you should check out the book It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office by Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox. We will cover some of this material when we study the logic of political ambition later in the semester.
Often I feel like I really missed something on the issue of Sarah Palin. It seems I've gone from hearing comments on how she's "set women back 20 years" to he being woman's hero in the political realm. My question is, what's up with that?
Also, I found this article from August that suggests women will lose seats in congress...
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/29/nation/la-na-congress-women-20100829
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