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work_hoyza5kehnfkdi77rlhrybcisy	DANIELLE M. THOMSEN	Women's Representation and the Gendered Pipeline to Power	2020	12	.pdf	application/pdf	12824	2367	77	The leading explanation for the underrepresentation of women in American politics is that womenare less likely to run for office than men, but scholars have given less attention in recent years to thegender makeup of the pipeline to elected office. For the gender disparity in candidates to close, women have to be far more likely to run for gendered pipeline to power alongside rates of entry in studies of women's underrepresentation. One of the central puzzles in the study of genderand politics is why women are underrepre-sented in elected office. across a variety of potential candidate pools has important implications for the number of men and women gender makeup of the potential candidate pool continues to matter for women's underrepresentation. rates of running can obscure gender and partisan disparities in the raw number of men and women in each Women Have to Be More Likely to Run Than Men to Equal the Number of Male Candidates,	./cache/work_hoyza5kehnfkdi77rlhrybcisy.pdf	./txt/work_hoyza5kehnfkdi77rlhrybcisy.txt