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SOUTHERN WOMEN LEGISLATORS AND PATRIARCHY IN THE SOUTH
Author(s) -
Nuwer Deanne Stephens
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2000.tb00115.x
Subject(s) - legislature , representation (politics) , patriarchy , state (computer science) , political science , politics , gender studies , public administration , political economy , sociology , law , algorithm , computer science
Women remain poorly represented in Congress and state legislatures throughout the United States, but the under‐representation of women in the states of the Old South remain significantly greater than in nonsouthern states. This article examines the question of southern women's under‐representation in Congress and state legislatures. The literature on women's representation reviewed in this article indicates that the traditional political culture and the patriarchal social culture of the Old South have hampered and continue to restrict the election of women from the Old South at both the national and state levels. In addition to reviewing the literature on representation, this article provides recent statistics on the representation of women in legislatures in the United States.