Congressional Women: Their Recruitment, Integration, and Behavior, 2nd Edition

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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This is a revision and update of Gertzog's successful 1984 study of women in the United States Congress. Now, 10 years later, the congressional roster is far different: Women have made major in-roads in numbers and prominence in the House of Representatives. Based upon interviews with 45 members of the 103rd Congress, this study examines the rise in the number of women elected, the circumstances leading to their success, and their integration into the workings of the institution, in both legislative and political terms.

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"Irwin Gertzog's updated Congressional Women remains the first and only full length scholarly study of women lawmakers at the national level. More important than its continuing originality, however, is its value as a sound and sensitive analysis of women's changing place in the U.S. Congress. Gertzog treats his subject with the detail, depth, and insightful analysis it deserves. Any student of women in politics should own Congressional Women."-Ruth B. Mandel, director Eagleton Institute of Politics Rutgers University

Author Bio

IRWIN N. GERTZOG is the Arthur Braun Professor of Political Science at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.