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Political Science’s Karen Beckwith examines the U.S. lag in electing female leaders

Women have led other democracies, but US voters rejected the two who tried – what will it take to elect a female president?
Cronkite NewsKaren Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, attributed the U.S. lag in electing female leaders to structural differences in political systems.