The motherless state
Subtitle: women's political leadership and American democracy
By: Eileen McDonagh.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780226514543; 9780226514550
Subjects: Women in politics -- United States; Leadership in women -- United States; Political leadership -- United States; Democracy -- United States
Description: This work reveals why the United States differs from comparable democracies that routinely elect far more women to their national governing bodies and chief executive positions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Confronting the puzzle; title: Defining maternal public policies; title: Generating public attitudes; title: Electing women political leaders; title: The laggard American state; title: Maternalizing American government, briefly; title: Fixing the state.