Gender, Race, and Descriptive Representation in the United States: Findings from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project (original) (raw)

2006, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

This research draws on the nation's first comprehensive database of elected leadership of color to provide a multi-cultural, multi-office, and multi-state look at the contours and context of descriptive representation by race and gender and with women of color at the center of analysis. We find that key to the persistent trend of growth in elective office holding of the nation's Black, Latino, and Asian American communities in recent decades is the expanding size of women of color [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: "Gender, Race and Descriptive Representation in the United States: