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"Among the most cited barriers were fundraising, which must be ramped up to a much higher level when running for Congress or a state-wide office—making the ask, developing relationships with donors so that when asked, donors respond, and having access to good call lists—as well as campaigning while female, balancing family obligations and office holding with campaigning, and the dominance of informal, male political networks that often exclude women (Baer and Hartmann 2014)." - Statusofwomenvoters.org
Other Articles
Low Female Political Representation in the US: An Institution-Based Explanation - Soo-hyung Ahn, Jaechun Kim, and William Kang
Progress in Women’s Representation in Top Leadership Weakens People’s Disturbance with Gender Inequality in Other Domains - Oriane Georgeac and Aneeta Rattan
Articles
Looking at the Nineteenth Amendment through a Twenty-First Century Lens - Elizabeth M. Yang
Mapping Social Movements and Leveraging the U.S. West: The Rhetoric of the Woman Suffrage Map - Tiffany Lewis
How the West Was Won: Competition, Mobilization, and Women's Enfranchisement in the United States - Dawn Langan Teele
Western Reconstruction and Women's Suffrage - Lorianne Updike Toler
Feminist Reflections on Representative Democracy - Joni Lovenduski
The Rise of the Iron Ladies: Female Leadership in Democracies (1960-2015) - Caroline Anne Johnson