Women of Color Mobilizing: Sistahs are Doing It for Themselves from GOTV to Running Candidates for Political Office

Bejarano, Christina E.; Smooth, Wendy G.

doi:10.1080/1554477x.2022.2008398

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“…Our data cannot account for all these idiosyncratic factors. It is possible that women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds engage in different communication styles from one another (Bejarano and Smooth 2022;Gonzalez and Bauer 2022;Greene, Matos, and Sanbonmatsu 2021). Future work should do more to follow-up on our research to study how women vary in their homestyles across racial and ethnic minority groups.…”

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Women Get the Job Done: Differences in Constituent Communication from Female and Male Lawmakers

Bauer

Cargile

2023

Pol & Gen

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This article advances and tests an original theory of a “feminine homestyle” to explain how female legislators develop relationships with constituents that both mitigate the potential for gendered biases and fulfill the communal goals that motivate women to run for political office. We use an original audit study that tests legislator responsiveness to direct email communication. We show that female lawmakers are more responsive to constituent communication and more likely to display compassion and empathy in responses compared with male legislators; but we also find important differences in women’s responsiveness across the race and ethnicity. Further, we find that responsive female lawmakers can change the behaviors of their male counterparts by creating stronger norms of responsiveness within legislative institutions. Our findings have important downstream implications for democratic accountability among voters and illustrate how female lawmakers substantively represent through direct communication with constituents.

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Women Get the Job Done: Differences in Constituent Communication from Female and Male Lawmakers

Bauer

Cargile

2023

Pol & Gen

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“…WoC elected officials support policies that benefit marginalized and economically disadvantaged communities (Bejarano 2013;Brown 2014;Brown and Gershon 2016b). Although research about who supports women candidates from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups has expanded (Bejarano and Smooth 2022;Brown, Clark, and Mahoney 2022;Brown andGershon 2016a, 2016b;Greene, Matos, and Sanbonmatsu 2022b;Matos, Greene, and Sanbonmatsu 2021;Simien 2022), we still know very little about how MoC, and in particular Black and Latino men, view WoC, Black, and Latina women candidates.…”

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Men of Color, Linked Fate, and Support for Women of Color Candidates

Matos,

Sanbonmatsu

2024

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Scholars are increasingly interested in “of color” identities. Yet, studies of “of color” identities have neglected attention to the gendered identities of men who could be categorized as “of color.” Meanwhile, women of color are playing a growing role in US politics as candidates and elected officials but are underrepresented in comparison with their presence in the population. We investigate whether Black and Latino men express a “men of color” linked fate and whether it has implications for support for women candidates of color. We seek to understand how Black and Latino men’s gender, race, and “of color” identities impact their evaluations of women candidates who are Black, Latina, and “of color” to better understand coalitional possibilities across gender and race lines. We find that Black and Latino men subscribe to “men of color” linked fate, with political consequences.

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Civic Education for the Majority: Centering Women in Civic Education

Kedrowski

2024

Political Pedagogies

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Women of Color Mobilizing: Sistahs are Doing It for Themselves from GOTV to Running Candidates for Political Office

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Women Get the Job Done: Differences in Constituent Communication from Female and Male Lawmakers

Women Get the Job Done: Differences in Constituent Communication from Female and Male Lawmakers

Men of Color, Linked Fate, and Support for Women of Color Candidates

Civic Education for the Majority: Centering Women in Civic Education

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