When Do Women Voters See Themselves in Female Representatives? Examining the Class Effects of Gender Representation

• In Event: Women, the Workforce, and Economic Empowerment

Brief Overview

Using conjoint experiments, the paper shows that class backgrounds of female representatives have a bigger impact on female voters, while the gender and class representation has little impact on male voters.

Authors

• Jeong Hyun Kim, Louisiana State University

• Yesola Kweon, Utah State University