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| Titre : | Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections |
| Auteurs : | Ryan Brown ; Hani Mansour ; Stephen D. O'Connell ; James Reeves |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | Bonn [Germany] : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, 2019 |
| Format : | 60 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ FEMME ; DIVISION SEXUELLE DU TRAVAIL ; POLITIQUE PUBLIQUE ; METIER DE LA POLITIQUE ; GENRE ; ETATS UNIS |
| Résumé : | This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of women who closely win versus closely lose a state legislature election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect of serving a state legislative term on the likelihood of running for a Congressional seat is twice as large for men as women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in legislators' careers, widen over time, and are seen alongside a higher propensity for female state legislators to recontest state legislature seats. […] After investigating several explanations, we conclude that the gender gap in political career progression is consistent with the existence of a glass ceiling in politics.'source: report) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12569/gender-differences-in-political-career-progression-evidence-from-us-elections |
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