Description: AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction: Women and Elective Office: Past, Present and Future1. The Bottleneck: Women becoming Candidates2. Campaign Finance: Women's Experience in the Modern Era3. Gender, Political Advertising, and the "Air Wars"4. Voter Reaction to Women Candidates5. Are All Women State Legislators Alike?6. Are Women State Legislators Different?7. The Geography of Gender Power: Women in State Legislatures8. Women at the National Level: An Update on Roll Call Voting Behavior9. Representing Women's Interests in the U.S. Hosue of Representatives10. African-American Women in State Elective Office in the South11. The Feminization of Leadership in State Legislatures12. Getting Things Done: Women Committee Chairpersons in State Legislatures13. In a Different Voice: Women and the Policy Process14. Into the Twenty-First Century: Will Women Break the Political Glass CeilingReferencesIndex

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