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In this second edition, Susan Carroll updates her pioneering study of women candidates and their campaigns in the aftermath of the "Year of the Woman." Although in many regards the political climate has become vastly more favorable for female candidates, opportunities are still limited by the political structure. Carroll examines a number of possible reforms and actual developments which may eventually mean larger numbers of women being elected to public office.

This volume brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of contemporary developments and the challenges that the future brings for women in American politics.

"[A] well-integrated volume by...one of the best known political scientists working on women and politics.... [It] includes contributions by leading scholars in the field, and provides a well-written and accessible overview of the impact of women in office atevery level..." -- Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"This [book] will be the standard-bearer not simply because it contains most of the early research in the field but more importantly, because of the wide-ranging

This volume examines the impact of women public officials serving in various offices and locales at local, state, and national levels. The essays included originated in a research project sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. The subjects range from a very prominent US Senator who served from the early 1940s to the 1970s, to members of a New Jersey county council in the 1980s, to state legislators from across the country.

This commentary examines the contributions of Emmy W. Werner's classic article to the study of women and politics and to knowledge about women in state legislatures, placing the article in the context of its time and highlighting its continuing relevance.

This paper examines gender differences in committee assignments of state legislators serving throughout the country in 1988 and 2001. Fewer gender differences in committee assignments were apparent in 2001 than in 1988. Nevertheless, in 2001 women continued to be significantly more likely than men to serve on two types of committees–education committees and health and human services committees. However, women seem largely to serve on these committees by choice; they want to be on these committees. And once on these committees, they work on legislation relevant to the substantive focus of these committees. This cluster of findings suggests that women legislators are, in fact, using their committee appointments as a means to pursue their interests in education and in health care and human services. And the end result is that women legislators give more attention and priority to these issues than their male colleagues do.