The Partisan Gap av Laurel Elder

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<p><b><i>WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION </i></b><br/><b>Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices</b><br/>From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in¿and winning¿elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades.<br/>In <i>The Partisan Gap</i>, Elder examines why this disparity in women¿s representation exists, and why it¿s only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideolo