{"title":"Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures","authors":"Jordan Butcher, Noah Haynes","doi":"10.1111/lsq.12435","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Diversity in representation is a necessary component of legislatures, both normatively and for the best policy outcomes. Recently, women legislators have received more attention, as has their role in office. While scholars have examined the importance of recruiting more women to office, there is less emphasis on the retention of women as legislators. The key to expanding women's representation in state legislatures rests in both the recruitment and retention of women. We theorize that variation in institutional and personal support affects whether women choose to stay in the state legislature long term. To test this, we examine the turnover rates for women from all 50 US states to identify the barriers to service and how to mitigate them. Our analysis contributes an understanding of how to create a more supportive environment to aid the retention of women in office and speaks to institutional capacity and performance in the workplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":47672,"journal":{"name":"Legislative Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Legislative Studies Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lsq.12435","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diversity in representation is a necessary component of legislatures, both normatively and for the best policy outcomes. Recently, women legislators have received more attention, as has their role in office. While scholars have examined the importance of recruiting more women to office, there is less emphasis on the retention of women as legislators. The key to expanding women's representation in state legislatures rests in both the recruitment and retention of women. We theorize that variation in institutional and personal support affects whether women choose to stay in the state legislature long term. To test this, we examine the turnover rates for women from all 50 US states to identify the barriers to service and how to mitigate them. Our analysis contributes an understanding of how to create a more supportive environment to aid the retention of women in office and speaks to institutional capacity and performance in the workplace.
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The Legislative Studies Quarterly is an international journal devoted to the publication of research on representative assemblies. Its purpose is to disseminate scholarly work on parliaments and legislatures, their relations to other political institutions, their functions in the political system, and the activities of their members both within the institution and outside. Contributions are invited from scholars in all countries. The pages of the Quarterly are open to all research approaches consistent with the normal canons of scholarship, and to work on representative assemblies in all settings and all time periods. The aim of the journal is to contribute to the formulation and verification of general theories about legislative systems, processes, and behavior.
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