The 2008 Candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin: Cracking the “Highest, Hardest Glass Ceiling”

Carroll, Susan J.; Dittmar, Kelly

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511807299.003

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“…Sarah Palin also endured considerable scrutiny regarding both her appearance and capacity to simultaneously tackle the roles of mother and vice president during the 2008 election. The experiences of both Clinton and Palin serve as a reminder that women still face obstacles stemming from persistent gender stereotypes in media coverage (Carroll and Dittmar 2010).…”

Section: Can Information Bridge the Ambition Gap?mentioning

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Can Information Alter Perceptions about Women's Chances of Winning Office? Evidence from a Panel Study

Dowling

Miller

2015

Pol & Gen

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When the 113th Congress convened in January 2013, women occupied only 17.9% of the 435 seats in the U.S. House, ranking the United States 80th globally in terms of the percentage of women serving in the lower legislative assembly. The underrepresentation of women is particularly puzzling, as political scientists since the 1990s have consistently shown that women candidates are not of demonstrably less quality than men on average (see Fulton 2012, 2014; Fulton et al. 2006; Lawless and Fox 2010), do not suffer from a gender-related funding disadvantage (Berch 1996; Burrell 2008; Gaddie and Bullock 1995; Fox 2010; Herrick 1995, 1996), and do about as well as men at the polls, accounting for differences in incumbency status (Fox 2010; Smith and Fox 2001).

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Section: Can Information Bridge the Ambition Gap?mentioning

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Can Information Alter Perceptions about Women's Chances of Winning Office? Evidence from a Panel Study

Dowling

Miller

2015

Pol & Gen

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“…It was in this context that activists in both parties were freshly considering the role of gender in the 2008 presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton's and Sarah Palin's convention speeches in 2008 were emblematic of the contemporary political salience of gender (Carroll and Dittmar 2010;Clinton 2008;Palin 2008). In her 2008 concession speech, for example, Clinton thanked "all of those women in their 80s and their 90s, born before women could vote, who cast their votes for our campaign.…”

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Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists

Sharrow

Strolovitch

Heaney

et al. 2016

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

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Activists in the Democratic and Republican parties have distinct concerns about women's place in American politics and society. These views lead them to evaluate female candidates through different ideological lenses that are conditioned, in part, on their divergent attitudes about gender. We explore the implications of these diverging lenses through an examination of the 2008 candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, using data from an original survey of Democratic and Republican National Convention delegates. We find that delegate sex did not affect their evaluations but that evaluations were influenced by the interaction of partisanship and attitudes about women's roles.

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“…It is certainly possible that men and women perform equally well because the latter do not face gender-related disadvantages as candidates. However, there is a robust literature suggesting that women face double standards in media coverage (Carroll and Dittmar, 2010; Falk, 2008; Fowler and Lawless, 2009; Fox, 1997; Kahn, 1996). Voters apply stereotypes as well, viewing women as more liberal (Koch, 2000, 2002), more compassionate, and better-suited to the policy arena of “women’s issues” such as abortion or child care (see Burrell, 2008; Herrnson et al, 2003; Kahn, 1996; Koch, 1999; Plutzer and Zipp, 1996).…”

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Going all-in: gender and campaign commitment

Miller

2015

Research & Politics

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Recent evidence suggests that women overcome the potential negative impact of gender stereotypes by emerging when they are stronger candidates than men. I leverage an original survey of state legislative candidates to determine whether women devote more time to their campaigns. I find that women on the whole, and those who had previously been elected to a political office in particular, invested more of their personal time into the campaign than men. This difference is driven by the fact that women are more likely to forgo employment during the election. These findings suggest that women are more likely than men to arrange their personal obligations in such a fashion that they can run stronger campaigns.

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The 2008 Candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin: Cracking the “Highest, Hardest Glass Ceiling”

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Can Information Alter Perceptions about Women's Chances of Winning Office? Evidence from a Panel Study

Can Information Alter Perceptions about Women's Chances of Winning Office? Evidence from a Panel Study

Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists

Going all-in: gender and campaign commitment

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