| The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation Contributor(s): Burns, Nancy (Author), Schlozman, Kay Lehman (Author), Verba, Sidney (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674006607 ISBN-13: 9780674006607 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? Why are they less likely to seek public office or join political organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal participation. The authors develop new methods to trace gender differences in political activity to the nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family, school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and church. Different experiences with these institutions produce differences in the resources, skills, and political orientations that facilitate participation--with a cumulative advantage for men. In addition, part of the solution to the puzzle of unequal participation lies in politics itself: where women hold visible public office, women citizens are more politically interested and active. The model that explains gender differences in participation is sufficiently general to apply to participatory disparities among other groups--among the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly or among Latinos, African-Americans and Anglo-Whites. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Social Science | Gender Studies - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 323.042 |
| LCCN: 2001024928 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6.07" W x 9.25" (1.49 lbs) 480 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? Why are they less likely to seek public office or join political organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal participation. The authors develop new methods to trace gender differences in political activity to the nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family, school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and church. Different experiences with these institutions produce differences in the resources, skills, and political orientations that facilitate participation--with a cumulative advantage for men. In addition, part of the solution to the puzzle of unequal participation lies in politics itself: where women hold visible public office, women citizens are more politically interested and active. The model that explains gender differences in participation is sufficiently general to apply to participatory disparities among other groups--among the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly or among Latinos, African-Americans and Anglo-Whites. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burns, Nancy: - Nancy Burns is Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor and Director for the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.Schlozman, Kay Lehman: - Kay Lehman Schlozman is J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College.Verba, Sidney: - Sidney Verba (1932-2019) was Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus, and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University.Schlozman, Kay Lehman: - Kay Lehman Schlozman is Professor of Political Science, Boston College.Verba, Sidney: - Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University. |