Women State Legislators: Styles and Priorities

Women State Legislators: Styles and Priorities

The concept of the marginal man appears to be applicable to women in politics. This assumption is used to generate hypotheses about women state legislators. A questionnaire mailed Feb 1978 to 703 women legislators obtained a 42% response which is used to test the model. Characteristics found reveal...

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Veröffentlicht in:Policy studies journal 1978-01, Vol.7 (2), p.264-270
Hauptverfasser: Githens, Marianne, Prestage, Jewel
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Legislator/Legislators
Marginal/Marginality/Marginalist
United States
Woman/Women (see also Female)
Women in politics
Women legislators
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Zusammenfassung:The concept of the marginal man appears to be applicable to women in politics. This assumption is used to generate hypotheses about women state legislators. A questionnaire mailed Feb 1978 to 703 women legislators obtained a 42% response which is used to test the model. Characteristics found reveal both objective marginality, marked by incomplete integration into legislative functioning, & experiential marginality, reflected in high level of self-motivation & importance attached to family attitudes about political involvement. 1 Table. W. H. Stoddard.
ISSN:0190-292X
1541-0072
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-0072.1978.tb01766.x