WOMEN IN POLITICS

Kathryn McNally Northern Arizona University

CCS 350W - Words at Work: Researching & Writing about Culture Dr. Devon

INTRODUCTION

Your Vote Does Count

Elections

Rock the Vote

HISTORY OF WOMEN IN POLITICS IN ARIZONA

We are here for business.

Arizonas Fab Five

Frances Willard Munds

Why not?

Nellie T. Bush

I think now I have been waiting for it all my life.

Isabella Greenway King

RECRUITMENT

Percentage by Office Level

100% 90% 80%

70%
60% 50%
Challenges

Time People Money

40%

30%
20% 10% 0%

CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES

Percentage by Office Level

Challenges

100% 90% 80%

70%
60% 50% 40%

Opponents Issue positions

30% 20%
10% 0%

Dirty Politics Planning Visibility

MEDIA

Percentage by Office Level

100% 90% 80%

70%
60% 50%
Challenges

Media
Organization

40%

30%
20% 10% 0%

Party

FUNDRAISING

Challenges

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30%

District Characteristics Voter apathy or distrust Difficulty Contacting Voters

20% 10% 0%
State Senate State House Statewide

Congress

FUTURE RESEARCH

Percentage by Office Level

100% 90% 80% Lack of support from other women Woman's issues

70%
60% 50%
Challenges

40% 30%

20%
10% 0%

Being a woman

EXPAND PARTICIPATION

Percentage by Office Level

Challenges

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30%

Personality characteristics
Other problems

20% 10% 0%
Congress State Senate State House

Statewide

Name familiarity

FUTURE OF ELECTORAL POLITICS

Reality Check

Even though Women are:

Women are still less likely to:
Cons

Educated Qualified Professional Well credentialed

Party/Public support

consider running for office actually run for office

consider running again

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arizona State Library. "Arizona govenors; Arizona Women." Arizona State Library. 1999. http://photos.lib.az.us/photos_Detail.cfm?ID=16608 (accessed March 2010). . "Frances Willard Munds." Arizona Woman's Hall of Fame. 1918. http://www.lib.az.us/awhof/IMAGES/women/munds.jpg (accessed February 2010). . "Isabella Greenway King." Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. 1935. http://www.lib.az.us/awhof/women/king.cfm (accessed February 2010). . "Nellie T. Bush." Arizona Woman's Hall of Fame. 1920. http://www.lib.az.us/awhof/women/bush.cfm (accessed February 2010). Blaney, Betsy. "A town where the good ol' boys are girls." Associated Press, 2008: 1. Carrol, Susan J. Women as Candidates in American Politics. 2nd. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994. Carroll, Susan J. Woman and American Politics : New Questions, New Directions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. Coplan, Jill Hamburg. "The un-republicans.(women in Republican leadership roles)." Working Woman, 1999: 60-64. Gabriel, Angela. "State shifting political image.(election of five women to Arizona's top five state offices)." The Business Journal - Serving Phoenix & the Valley of the Sun, 1999: 19(2). Miller, Kristie. "'I have been waiting for it all my life': The Congressional Career of Isabella Greenway." THE JOURNAL OF ARIZONA HISTORY, 2004: 121-142. Osselaer, Heidi. "'We Are Here For Business': Women in the Arizona Legislature, 1914 to 1940." Journal of the West, 2003: 17-42. Oxley, Zoe M., and Richard L. Fox. "Women in Executive Office: Variation Across American States." Political Research Quarterly, 2004: 113 (9).

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