01499pab a2200169 454500 180718b2010 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d McDonagh, Eileen It takes a state: a policy feedback model of women's political representation 2010 p.69-91. Mar American women attain more professional success in medicine, business, and higher education than do most of their counterparts around the world. an enduring puzzle is, therefore, why the US lags so far behind other countries when it comes to women's political repr3esentation. In 2008, women held only 16.8 percent of seats in the House of Representatives, a proportion that ranks America lower than 83 other countries. This article addresses this conundrum. It establishes that equal rights alone are insufficient to ensure equal access to political office. Also necessary are public policies representing maternal traits that voters associate with women. Such policies have feedback effects that reach voters that the maternal traits attributed to women represent strengths not only in the private sphere of the home but also in the public sphere of the state. Most other democracies now have such policies in place, but the United States lacks such policies, which accounts for its laggard status with regard to the political representation of women. - Reproduced. Women in politics Perspectives on Politics N 87216 87216 87216 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 8, Issue no: 1 AR87676 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR