Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation

The 2018 midterm elections proved to be a banner year for female candidates. The record-setting number of women on the ballot translated into a new high-water mark for the descriptive representation of women in Congress. While it is clear that female candidates were more successful in getting on the ballot during this election cycle than ever before, what remains unclear is how voters perceived the diverse traits these candidates brought to their campaigns and how those traits impacted voter evaluations. In this dissertation, I build on the existing literature on gender stereotypes and white female candidates to explore this question.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Social Sciences

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Mayes, Carly

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie

• candidate evaluation
• gender stereotypes
• political psychology
• experiments

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/109610

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/109610