Female politicians' success can be predicted by their facial features, especially in conservative states where women with more feminine faces tend to do better at the ballot box, a Dartmouth College-led study finds.
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May 15, 2014
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Though much progress has been made toward gender equality, news coverage of female politicians typically follows gendered lines that often disregards women's competence in political affairs, a University of Texas at Arlington ...
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Jun 17, 2016
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s record number of women seek seats in Congress, CU Boulder and Notre Dame researchers probe the motivations behind the trend
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Aug 29, 2018
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An analysis of 10 million comments on the social media platform Reddit suggests that public interest in male versus female politicians is relatively equal, but that gender biases exist across the platform. Sara Marjanovic ...
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Oct 26, 2022
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As midterm elections approach with an unprecedented number of women candidates running for Congress, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology reveal that both women and men prefer female politicians, with men rating ...
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Oct 1, 2018
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After Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in June 2016—the first woman in American history nominated for president by a major political party—she tweeted a picture of her dancing with ...
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Mar 29, 2017
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Increasing women's participation in politics has been one of the biggest focus areas in Norwegian gender-based aid in recent years. In a number of countries in Africa, more than 30 per cent of the members of parliament are ...
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Sep 18, 2015
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Research has shown that politicians' gender shapes public expectations of their expertise.
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Aug 10, 2017
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