Women's Place is in the Statehouse: The Politics of Presence in Discourse Before and After Dobbs

• In Event: Women in State and Local Politics

Brief Overview

Using text-as-data methods, we investigate the role of descriptive representation of gender in US statehouse debates on abortion. Do women legislators frame it differently than men / use distinct tones or strategies? How does party interact?

Authors

• Danielle Pullan, Georgia College & State University

• Nikolina Klatt, Freie Universitat Berlin

• Payton Gannon, Georgetown University