Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Electoral Politics: Still a Man's World?
- 2 Explaining Women's Emergence in the Political Arena
- 3 The Gender Gap in Political Ambition
- 4 Barefoot, Pregnant, and Holding a Law Degree: Family Dynamics and Running for Office
- 5 Gender, Party, and Political Recruitment
- 6 “I'm Just Not Qualified”: Gendered Self-Perceptions of Candidate Viability
- 7 Taking the Plunge: Deciding to Run for Office
- 8 Gender and the Future of Electoral Politics
- Appendix A The Citizen Political Ambition Study Sample Design and Data Collection
- Appendix B The Survey
- Appendix C The Interview Questionnaire
- Appendix D Variable Coding
- Works Cited
- Index
Appendix A - The Citizen Political Ambition Study Sample Design and Data Collection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Electoral Politics: Still a Man's World?
- 2 Explaining Women's Emergence in the Political Arena
- 3 The Gender Gap in Political Ambition
- 4 Barefoot, Pregnant, and Holding a Law Degree: Family Dynamics and Running for Office
- 5 Gender, Party, and Political Recruitment
- 6 “I'm Just Not Qualified”: Gendered Self-Perceptions of Candidate Viability
- 7 Taking the Plunge: Deciding to Run for Office
- 8 Gender and the Future of Electoral Politics
- Appendix A The Citizen Political Ambition Study Sample Design and Data Collection
- Appendix B The Survey
- Appendix C The Interview Questionnaire
- Appendix D Variable Coding
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
We drew the “candidate eligibility pool” from a national sample of women and men employed in the four professions that most often precede state legislative and congressional candidacies: law, business, education, and politics. In assembling the sample, we created two equal-sized pools of candidates – one female and one male – that held the same professional credentials. Because we wanted to make nuanced statistical comparisons within and between the subgroups of men and women in each profession, we attempted to compile a sample of 900 men and 900 women from each.
We drew the names of lawyers and business leaders from national directories. We obtained a random sample of 1,800 lawyers from the 2001 edition of the Martindale-Hubble Law Directory, which provides the addresses and names of practicing attorneys in all law firms across the country. We stratified the total number of lawyers by sex and in proportion to the total number of law firms listed for each state. We randomly selected 1,800 business leaders from Dun and Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory, 2000–2001, which lists the top executive officers of more than 160,000 public and private companies in the United States. Again, we stratified by geography and sex and ensured that men and women held comparable positions.
No national directories exist for our final two categories. To compile a sample of educators, we focused on college professors and administrative officials, and public school teachers and administrators.
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- It Takes a CandidateWhy Women Don't Run for Office, pp. 157 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005