Kelly Dittmar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Dittmar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Dittmar |
| SIGNATURE | DITTMAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2115-0190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Whither Politics & Gender Research? Reflections on US Election 2024
The 2024 elections made US history in numerous ways. Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to be nominated by a major party for the presidency. Former president Donald Trump made history by becoming the oldest person and the first convicted felon to become president. 2024 marked the first presidential election following the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022
Studying Legislatures at the Intersection of Gender and Race
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Invisible forces
This project adopts theories of gendered and racialized professionalism to make visible and evaluate gender, race, and congressional staff as key and intersecting forces in the function and outcomes of legislative institutions. Drawing upon more than 60 interviews conducted with high-level women staffers who worked on Capitol Hill over the past 5 decades, it documents the influence of gender, race, and intersectional identities on staffers’: expe…
Urgency and ambition
This article analyses publicly reported statements of motivation by non-incumbent women US House candidates in 2018 to assess the role of negative emotions, particularly those cued by catalysing events like the 2016 presidential election, in women candidate emergence. Findings reveal that Democratic non-incumbent women candidates were most likely to describe negative inducements, including feelings of urgency, anger and/or threat, as motivating c…
Gendered Vulnerability
In It to Win
What will it take to elect a woman president? As we consider the first presidential election to feature a major-party female nominee for president, this question is particularly relevant. But, as Lori Cox Han outlines in In it to Win: Electing Madam President, our knowledge of how gender informs this presidential election is relatively limited. Han’s text provides an overview of the literature to date on women in both American politics and presid…
Watching Election 2016 with a Gender Lens
The presence of women candidates in both major parties’ presidential primaries, including a likely woman Democratic nominee, has increased the attention paid to gender dynamics in the 2016 US presidential election. However, the presumption that previous presidential elections—without female prominent contenders—were gender neutral is false: gender dynamics have been at play in all US presidential elections to date. The nation’s top executive offi…
Encouragement is not Enough
Invite a woman to run for office. Based on findings that women are most responsive to and reliant on encouragement in making the decision to run for office, this invitation refrain is pervasive among those seeking greater gender parity in U.S. politics. For example, in 2007, the Women's Campaign Fund launched She Should Run, complete with an online tool that, to date, has been used to ask just under 200,000 women to run for office. In 2014, anoth…
A Woman on the Hill
It was May 2012, and we heard rumblings about a Senate vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill long-sponsored by my boss, Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), that would end pay secrecy, strengthen workers' ability to challenge discrimination, and bring equal pay law into line with other civil rights laws. As the lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, the congresswoman immediately mobilized her staff and advocates to ensure that we did al…
Apsa Congressional Fellows Office Assignments
Founded in 1953, the APSA Congressional Fellowship Program is the nation's oldest and most prestigious congressional fellowship. More than 50 years later, the program remains devoted to its original objective of expanding knowledge and awareness of Congress. For nine months, select political scientists, journalists, doctors, federal executives, and international scholars gain “hands on” understanding of the legislative process by serving on congr…
Encouragement is not Enough
Invite a woman to run for office. Based on findings that women are most responsive to and reliant on encouragement in making the decision to run for office, this invitation refrain is pervasive among those seeking greater gender parity in U.S. politics. For example, in 2007, the Women's Campaign Fund launched She Should Run, complete with an online tool that, to date, has been used to ask just under 200,000 women to run for office. In 2014, anoth…
Urgency and ambition
This article analyses publicly reported statements of motivation by non-incumbent women US House candidates in 2018 to assess the role of negative emotions, particularly those cued by catalysing events like the 2016 presidential election, in women candidate emergence. Findings reveal that Democratic non-incumbent women candidates were most likely to describe negative inducements, including feelings of urgency, anger and/or threat, as motivating c…
Invisible forces
This project adopts theories of gendered and racialized professionalism to make visible and evaluate gender, race, and congressional staff as key and intersecting forces in the function and outcomes of legislative institutions. Drawing upon more than 60 interviews conducted with high-level women staffers who worked on Capitol Hill over the past 5 decades, it documents the influence of gender, race, and intersectional identities on staffers’: expe…
Watching Election 2016 with a Gender Lens
The presence of women candidates in both major parties’ presidential primaries, including a likely woman Democratic nominee, has increased the attention paid to gender dynamics in the 2016 US presidential election. However, the presumption that previous presidential elections—without female prominent contenders—were gender neutral is false: gender dynamics have been at play in all US presidential elections to date. The nation’s top executive offi…
Apsa Congressional Fellows Office Assignments
Founded in 1953, the APSA Congressional Fellowship Program is the nation's oldest and most prestigious congressional fellowship. More than 50 years later, the program remains devoted to its original objective of expanding knowledge and awareness of Congress. For nine months, select political scientists, journalists, doctors, federal executives, and international scholars gain “hands on” understanding of the legislative process by serving on congr…
A Woman on the Hill
It was May 2012, and we heard rumblings about a Senate vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill long-sponsored by my boss, Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), that would end pay secrecy, strengthen workers' ability to challenge discrimination, and bring equal pay law into line with other civil rights laws. As the lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, the congresswoman immediately mobilized her staff and advocates to ensure that we did al…
Encouragement is not Enough
Invite a woman to run for office. Based on findings that women are most responsive to and reliant on encouragement in making the decision to run for office, this invitation refrain is pervasive among those seeking greater gender parity in U.S. politics. For example, in 2007, the Women's Campaign Fund launched She Should Run, complete with an online tool that, to date, has been used to ask just under 200,000 women to run for office. In 2014, anoth…
In It to Win
What will it take to elect a woman president? As we consider the first presidential election to feature a major-party female nominee for president, this question is particularly relevant. But, as Lori Cox Han outlines in In it to Win: Electing Madam President, our knowledge of how gender informs this presidential election is relatively limited. Han’s text provides an overview of the literature to date on women in both American politics and presid…
Watching Election 2016 with a Gender Lens
The presence of women candidates in both major parties’ presidential primaries, including a likely woman Democratic nominee, has increased the attention paid to gender dynamics in the 2016 US presidential election. However, the presumption that previous presidential elections—without female prominent contenders—were gender neutral is false: gender dynamics have been at play in all US presidential elections to date. The nation’s top executive offi…
Gendered Vulnerability
Urgency and ambition
This article analyses publicly reported statements of motivation by non-incumbent women US House candidates in 2018 to assess the role of negative emotions, particularly those cued by catalysing events like the 2016 presidential election, in women candidate emergence. Findings reveal that Democratic non-incumbent women candidates were most likely to describe negative inducements, including feelings of urgency, anger and/or threat, as motivating c…
Invisible forces
This project adopts theories of gendered and racialized professionalism to make visible and evaluate gender, race, and congressional staff as key and intersecting forces in the function and outcomes of legislative institutions. Drawing upon more than 60 interviews conducted with high-level women staffers who worked on Capitol Hill over the past 5 decades, it documents the influence of gender, race, and intersectional identities on staffers’: expe…
Studying Legislatures at the Intersection of Gender and Race
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Whither Politics & Gender Research? Reflections on US Election 2024
The 2024 elections made US history in numerous ways. Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to be nominated by a major party for the presidency. Former president Donald Trump made history by becoming the oldest person and the first convicted felon to become president. 2024 marked the first presidential election following the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)