{"id":15374,"date":"2015-06-12T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15374"},"modified":"2015-06-12T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:47:16","slug":"run-like-girl-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15374","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Run Like a Girl \u2026 for Office&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleagues Nancy Thomas and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacu.org\/diversitydemocracy\/2015\/spring\/thomas?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=dd_18_2&amp;utm_campaign=dd_18_2\">article<\/a> in <em>Diversity &amp; Democracy<\/em> entitled &#8220;Run Like a Girl \u2026 for Office: How Higher Education Can Advance Gender Equity in Politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very obvious that\u00a0far too few women hold political office in the US. Until my colleagues started working on this topic last year,\u00a0I had been naively thinking that the\u00a0problem would gradually fade as younger women capitalized on their strong gains in education; or that the barriers were things like campaign financing or family-leave policies that would yield to\u00a0rather direct policy reforms. But Kei and\u00a0Nancy have developed and assembled evidence that the problem is partly psychological&#8211;a persistent lack of confidence among younger women. And, like most psychological problems, this one\u00a0has social roots: in this case, the disparate ways that educators treat girls and boys, even when they want to be equitable. The article ends with practical suggestions for colleges and universities, who form the target audience for <em>Diversity &amp; Democracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aacu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/diversitydemocracy\/dd_sp15_thomas_figure1_p13a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleagues Nancy Thomas and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg have an article in Diversity &amp; Democracy entitled &#8220;Run Like a Girl \u2026 for Office: How Higher Education Can Advance Gender Equity in Politics.&#8221; It&#8217;s very obvious that\u00a0far too few women hold political office in the US. Until my colleagues started working on this topic last year,\u00a0I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15377,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374\/revisions\/15377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}