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This episode explores the reasons behind the absence of a woman president in the United States, focusing on the gender gap in political activity and ambition.

1. 📊 Burns et al. (2025), What’s happened to the gender gap in political activity? Social structure, politics, and political participation in the United Stateshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/whats-happened-to-the-gender-gap-in-political-activity/1A6EFA30E995F841B8D61D6EDEC0F777?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark 2. 📄 Burns et al. (2018), “What’s happened to the gender gap in political participation? How might we explain it?”https://academic.oup.com/book/5111/chapter-abstract/147698891?redirectedFrom=fulltext 3. 📚 Burns et al. (2009), The private roots of public action: Gender, equality, and political participationhttps://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.4159/9780674029088/html 4. 🗳️ Lawless & Fox (2019), “A Trump effect? Women and the 2018 midterm elections”https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/for-2018-0038/html 5. 🎯 Fox & Lawless (2023), “The invincible gender gap in political ambition”https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/invincible-gender-gap-in-political-ambition/547D8E289D82299856644844269E2FC9 6. 📈 Fox & Lawless (2022), “The gender gap in political ambition…

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Host: Political Reality

Topics covered

• gender gap
• political participation
• women in politics
• political ambition
• midterm elections

Keywords

• women president
• gender gap
• political activity
• political ambition
• midterm elections

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Burns et al., Lawless & Fox, Hayes & Lawless

Books & works: What’s happened to the gender gap in political activity?, A Trump effect? Women and the 2018 midterm elections, The invincible gender gap in political ambition, The gender gap in political ambition: Everything you need to know in ten charts

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