Representation by the Numbers
Roughly what percent of U.S. Mayors are women?
What is about 25%
Woman running for local office, often, faced, difficulty, balancing campaigns with this responsibility.
What is family or caregiving?
Serving on this local body is often entry point for women into politics.
What are school boards?
Women in local government are often linked to increases in policies around this community issue.
What is childcare or education?
True or False: According to what Dr.Walker has shared, she’s an example of a woman who participated in local government.
What is True.
Women hold about this percentage of city/town council seats.
What is 30%?
Compared to men, women usually have less access to this critical campaign resource.
What is fundraising/money?
Local office can serve as a pipeline to this state level institution.
What are state legislatures?
Female city council members are more likely to emphasize this type of budget priority.
What is social spending?
The first woman ever elected as mayor in the United States.
Who is Susanna Madora Salter?
Compared to state legislature, women’s representation at the local level is typically (higher/lower/about the same)?
What is Higher
Gender stereotypes can lead voters to see women as better at “soft issues,“ like this area of local policy.
What is education or social services?
Women are more likely than men to begin their political careers at this level.
What is the local level?
Research suggest women mayors, bring more attention to issues of ____ and inclusion.
What is diversity/equity?
In 2019, this woman became the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ+ person to be elected mayor of Chicago.
Who is Lori Lightfoot?
as of 2015, less than 10% of this local law-enforcement leadership role is held by women.
What are Sheriffs?
This type of electoral system (at large vs. single member districts) can disadvantage women candidates.
What is at large systems?
Being a local mayor can increase name recognition for a later run for this type of office.
What is congressional office?
Having women in local office has been shown to increase this among younger women.
What is political ambition/participation?
In 2018, she became the first African-American woman, elected sheriff in North Carolina
Who is Paula Dance?
This region of the U.S. tends to elect the highest number of women to local office.
What is the West?
Women of color face this additional challenge compared to white women in local politics.
What is intersectional discrimination?
The idea that local office helps women build experience for a higher office is known as the ______ model.
What is the pipeline model?
Scholars called effect of women officeholder influencing policy priorities the ________ effect.
What is the substantive representation effect?
In 1887 the first woman elected mayor represented this State.
What is Kansas?