The Qualifications Gap
eBook - PDF

The Qualifications Gap

Why Women Must Be Better than Men to Win Political Office

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Qualifications Gap

Why Women Must Be Better than Men to Win Political Office

About this book

What does it take for women to win political office? This book uncovers a gendered qualifications gap, showing that women need to be significantly more qualified than men to win elections. Applying insights from psychology and political science and drawing on experiments, public opinion data, and content analysis, Nichole M. Bauer presents new evidence of how voter biases and informational asymmetries combine to disadvantage female candidates. The book shows that voters conflate masculinity and political leadership, receive less information about the political experiences of female candidates, and hold female candidates to a higher qualifications standard. This higher standard is especially problematic for Republican female candidates. The demand for masculinity in political leaders means these women must "look like men" but also be better than men to win elections.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 The Gendered Qualification Gap
  11. 2 Fomenting a Gender Rebellion
  12. 3 No Place for Women
  13. 4 A Gendered Information Gap
  14. 5 Do Voters Expect Women to Be Better than Men?
  15. 6 Different Parties, Different Standards
  16. 7 Gender Bias, Disrupted
  17. 8 The Future Is Female
  18. Appendixes
  19. References
  20. Index