#GenderWatchSyllabus: Your Guide to Gender & the Presidential Election

Kelly Dittmar

presidential gender watch 2016In April 2015, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation (BLFF) and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) launched Presidential Gender Watch 2016, a project to track, analyze, and illuminate gender dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. With the help of expert scholars and practitioners, Presidential Gender Watch worked for 21 months to further public understanding of how gender influences candidate strategy, voter engagement and expectations, media coverage, and electoral outcomes in campaigns for the nation’s highest executive office. The blog below was written for Presidential Gender Watch 2016, as part of our collective effort to raise questions, suggest answers, and complicate popular discussions about gender’s role in the presidential race.

As we enter the general election, Presidential Gender Watch is launching #GenderWatchSyllabus, a campaign to gather and share resources from gender and politics experts to help understand gender dynamics in the 2016 presidential race. Over the next few weeks, we will share sources recommended by scholars to provide greater depth, nuance, and clarity to the myriad ways in which gender is at play in this election – for candidates and voters. Please stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter accounts for regular updates, which will culminate in a comprehensive #GenderWatchSyllabus heading into fall 2016.

 

Check out our first contribution from Dr. Christina Wolbrecht here.

Are you an expert? Submit your recommended sources here.

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Kelly Dittmar

Kelly Dittmar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers–Camden and Director of Research and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Kira Sanbonmatsu and Susan J. Carroll) and author of Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns (Temple University Press, 2015).

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