Gender Pools and Puzzles: Charting a “Women's Path” to the Legislature

Politics and Gender

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-400

  Sanbonmatsu, Kira ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 43249166461     PISSN: 1743923X     EISSN: 17439248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X06251080     Document Type: Article

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