1.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140241237462
“conventional wisdom holds that voters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prefer male candidates, presumably due to sexism. We test this conventional wisdom using a conjoint experiment administered to over 30,000 respondents in six MENA countries. We find both male and female respondents are more likely to express support for female candidates and see them as more capable than their male counterparts, even in stereotypically male domains.”
2.) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/perks-of-being-female-gender-stereotypes-and-voters-preferences-in-brazil/0E1A7C698B432AF715DB3F92D4999507
“In two survey experiments, I identify the gendered stereotypes of politicians in Brazil and estimate how they influence voters’ behavior toward hypothetical candidates who do or do not comply with those stereotypes. The findings suggest that voters hold positive stereotypes of women and a broad pro-female bias.”
3.) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/716290
“We collect 67 such studies from all over the world and reanalyze them using a standardized approach. We find that the average effect of being a woman (relative to a man) is a gain of approximately 2 percentage points.”
4.) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/do-elites-discriminate-against-female-political-aspirants-evidence-from-a-field-experiment/DB60B07B39E1FF4B3F6BCE6309E3FF5F
“Based on responses from 1,774 Canadian legislators, I find evidence of an overall gender bias in favor of female political aspirants. Specifically, legislators are more responsive to female political aspirants and more likely to provide them with helpful advice when they ask how to get involved in politics. This pro-women bias, which exists at all levels of government, is stronger among female legislators”
5.) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/why-women-earn-high-marks-examining-the-role-of-partisanship-and-gender-in-political-evaluations/21119FD492E54FC801DD68AA9250C1D1
“On the whole, women politicians are evaluated on par with or significantly higher than men politicians across six characteristics, scoring especially well relative to men when politicians are presumed to be members of the opposing party and when traditionally feminine characteristics are assessed.”
6.) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-022-09853-8
“Our results suggest that, at least for productivity as measured in parliamentary-based activities, women politicians do not need to work harder than their men colleagues to satisfy voters.”
7.) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/more-money-less-credit-legislator-gender-and-the-effectiveness-of-congressional-credit-claiming/77BFC6DD3E41F165F24C96467E49DB22
“I find no evidence that legislator gender influences the public’s reaction to congressional credit claims”
8.) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/double-standard-gender-bias-in-voters-perceptions-of-political-arguments/133272ABF4B7BBCD93AF22CED60D4232
“These results have important implications, as they suggest that women politicians may not need to conform to stereotype-expected behaviours in order to receive positive voter evaluations.”
9.) https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/264117/1/vfs-2022-pid-70505.pdf
“When deciding between candidates of different genders, Democrats, and particularly Democratic women, preferred female candidates, while Republicans chose female and male candidates equally often. These patterns remained when controlling for respondents’ education, age, and political knowledge and for candidates’ age, attractiveness, and perceived conservativeness. Our results suggest that voter bias against women cannot explain female underrepresentation”
10.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1065912920906193
“we find no evidence in either experiment to suggest that female political executives (i.e., governors, premiers, and mayors) receive lower levels of credit than their male counterparts for positive governing performance. We do find evidence that female executives receive less blame than male executives for poor governing performance”
11.) https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6765.12396
“On the voter demand-side, we show that there is no pro-male bias in general or in combination with other candidate traits nor that traits evaluated positively by voters appear more frequently among actual male candidates. On the supply-side, we find that women are less likely to be interested in running for political office.”
12.) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1554477X.2023.2256612
“more people, and women in particular, put higher trust in female compared to male political representatives than the other way round. We find that – at the individual level – gender, age and education have significant effects on political gender attitudes. Contrary to theory, however, the effect of gender is not mediated by beliefs about the proper role of women in politics and society”
13.) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457289.2022.2120885
“Using a single vignette survey experiment in five European countries, I show that voters have strong preferences for equal descriptive representation of men and women in political parties and prefer women as lead candidates”
14.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13540688231221124
“We analyzed 50 elections held from 1996 to 2016 in 24 countries. The results showed that female leaders were better evaluated by women and that women were more likely than men to vote for them.”
In reference to the last study on this list, there are more female voters than male voters, giving women a slight advantage by default:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-future-is-female-how-the-growing-political-power-of-women-will-remake-american-politics/
And its undeniable that female interests are pushed by the political establishment, as opposed to male interests, such as male healthcare:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31354093/
In Summary, politics is very open to women and female interests. the reason why there are fewer women in office is entirely caused by women’s choices.
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