The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over
the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due …

In recent years, statistical and case study research has increasingly reached conflicting
findings in terms of the factors explaining cross-national variations in the percentage of …

Out and Running is the first systematic analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) political representation that explores the dynamics of state legislative campaigns …

To explain the gender gap in legislatures, scholars have identified several socio-economic,
political, and cultural factors that undermine women's representation. One explanation …

How does a comparative politics of gender improve our understanding of political
representation? I map the existing feminist literature on this topic, which asks questions like …

American women attain more professional success in medicine, business, and higher
education than do most of their counterparts around the world. An enduring puzzle is …

Representation is crucial for democracy: good representation helps to increase
responsiveness, foster electoral turnout, increase political interest and include minorities …

This article examines the factors that support a glass ceiling for women in politics, focusing
on the electoral system and their effects over the political representation of women deputies …

My project analyzes how the intersectional identities and subgroup membership of female
Black legislators in the Maryland state legislature shapes their legislative decisions in …

The main contribution of research on women, gender, and state-level politics has been the
introduction of the concept of gender and an expansion of traditional definitions of politics …