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True or False: When women run, they win at equal rates as similarly situated men.

True or False: Most scholars of gender and politics believe that voters are to blame for women’s underrepresentation.

True or False: College-age women have lower levels of political ambition than college-age men.

True or False: Policy feedback is the idea that policies shape the attitudes and behavior of the public.

True or False: McDonagh argues that the United States is a “motherless state.”

True or False: Brooks studies the impact of gender stereotypes by analyzing real-world political candidates and real-world election outcomes.

True or False: Individuals in the professions of law, business, education, and political activism are considered to be in the “candidate eligibility pool.”

True or False: Women candidates raise less money than similarly situated male candidates.

True or False: The United States Congress is ranked in the top ten of women’s representation in parliament cross-nationally.

True or False (a gimme): Georgia will have two runoff elections for U.S. Senate in January 2021.

Long answer questions:

1. What are the three maternalist features of the state that McDonagh focuses on?
2. Why is it valuable to use a comparative (cross-national) lens to study women’s underrepresentation?
3. Discuss why women are underrepresented in American politics. You will likely want to draw on Brooks, Lawless and Fox, Thomsen and King, and McDonagh in your response.
4. Discuss why women have lower levels of political ambition than men. You will likely want to draw on the multiple readings by Lawless and Fox in your response.

Extra Credit (2 points): What is the name of Facebook’s chief operating officer who encourages women to “lean in” to their careers?