Women-Friendly Districts and Substantive Representation: An Analysis of Bill Sponsorship in Congress

• In Event: Blockade and Barriers to Increasing Women's Representation

Brief Overview

This paper tests whether and how legislator gender and the women-friendliness of a district facilitate substantive representation of women’s interests, broadly defined, by looking at patterns of bill sponsorship in Congress.

Author

• Amy Friesenhahn, University of North Texas