| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Representing Women: Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California. By Beth Reingold. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 338 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index.)

Do women legislators represent women better than their male counterparts? Beth Reingold, a political scientist, begins her book by noting that most researchers in her field have answered yes. They agree that women lawmakers, since the late 1970s, have "made a difference" for women in public office because they are more likely to be involved in women's issues and to vote positively for feminist issues. Some political scientists additionally believe that women legislators have a different political style than men: the women are more responsive to constituents and more cooperative with their colleagues. 1

Reingold finds this research simplistic. In her comparison of the male and female members of the 1990 state legislatures of Arizona and California, she sees greater similarities than differences between men and women. Gender matters, she says, but we can only understand the political behavior of legislators if we examine the interaction of numerous factors. . . .

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