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- Women's Vote Watch
- 2008 Vice Presidential Candidacy of Governor Sarah Palin
- 2008 Presidential Candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
- A Woman President? Polling Data
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Fact Sheet on Women Who've Run for President and Vice President
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NPR Series on Historic Presidential Campaigns
In October, 2008, National Public Radio's All Things Considered offered a series of reports on historic presidential candidacies, including three women. Links to those stories are provided here.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Margaret Chase Smith
Shirley Chisholm
- "She's The Candidate! A Woman for President"
by Ruth B. Mandel
Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics and Senior Scholar, Center for American Women and Politics
This chapter about women presidential candidates is published in Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode (Jossey-Bass, 2007).Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. The experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way, including current thinking on the perils of stereotypes, the importance of leadership style, gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles, lessons from women leaders, “opt out” patterns and the need for flexible career paths, global inequalities and initiatives, and strategies that get women to the top. The book is available from Amazon - order through this link and a portion of the proceeds goes to CAWP.
- Women Leaders Around the World
Many other countries are well ahead of the U.S. in choosing women as heads of government and/or heads of state. To explore the global context for women's leadership, visit the websites listed below.
Council of Women World Leaders
Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Women and Parliaments