Legislating at the Intersections

Race, Gender, and Representation

Bibliographic Data

ID6340979
AuthorsBeth Reingold (0000-0003-4094-9934, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, corresponding author), Kirsten Widner (0000-0002-3788-8504, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA), Rachel Harmon (0000-0002-5823-2416, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Year2020
Volume73
Issue4
Pages819-833
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1065912919858405
OpenAlexW2955280885
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited48

Record numbers of women, and in particular women of color, are gaining elective office across the country. This article explores how their presence in legislative bodies might make a difference in policy agendas and legislative advocacy, especially at the intersections of race and gender. Leveraging original datasets of Democratic lawmakers and the bills they sponsor in fifteen U.S. state houses in 1997 and 2005, we examine multiple forms of race–gender policy leadership and how it is tied to legislators’ race–gender identity. Testing theories of intersectional representation, we find that women of color often are the most likely race–gender policy leaders. Indeed, our measures of race–gender policy leadership reveal the distinctive representational work of women of color, which traditional, single-axis measures of legislative activity on behalf of women or racial/ethnic minorities cannot

Democracy · Ethnic group · Gender identity · Identity (music · Legislature · People of color · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Representation (politics · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Women of color · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Public Administration

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