Women candidates and winning mixes of femininity, masculinity

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 11:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Liberal and conservative voters use gender stereotypes quite differently from one another, according to research by a University of California, Berkeley, political science graduate student that sheds some light on how and why women can effectively run for elected office in the United States. In her paper, “Do Voters Prefer Well-Behaved Women? Experimental Tests of Competing Stereotypes,” Rachel […]

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