Gender and Politics

Bypassing the Playbook: Bachmann's Missed Opportunities

Barbara Lee | Posted 03.21.2012

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Barbara Lee

She failed to capitalize on her gender as an asset or to take advantage of key changes in voter attitudes towards women candidates. Bachmann fell prey to many of the challenges facing women's campaigns for executive office.

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Women Leaders -- Anywhere But Here?

Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anne E. Kornblut

America ranks somewhere around #71 worldwide, below Pakistan and Cuba, when it comes to the share of women in political office (in the US Congress, it's less than 17 percent).

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Uneasy Twins

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

For the past few weeks the nation has been engaged in a truly bizarre debate over who is better qualified for the presidency -- Barack Obama or Sarah Palin.

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