Women State Legislators: Styles and Priorities

In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 264-270

Abstract

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.