Women in Legislative Studies

We are transitioning over to 🟦. Find us there under the handle WinLS! This account will remain active until November 30.

Learn more about Republican women's representation in Congress in Catherine Wineinger's book Gendering the GOP. Find it here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

This month's professional development seminar focuses on publishing! A roundtable of journal editors will share their guidance and answer questions. It's happening this Friday (Nov. 17) from 2-3pm Eastern. Register here for the Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Great way to start a Friday. Exciting work by excellent legislative and public opinion scholars. @alisonwcraig @KornbergMaya #KatherineTate @W_inLS @womenalsoknow

Our monthly writing group meets next Monday, November 13, from 2:30-3:30 Eastern. Register to write with us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Don't miss Jordan Butcher's new book, Navigating Term Limits: The Careers of State Legislators. This book provides the most up-to-date analysis of term limits with info on 12 term-limited state legislatures and interviews from 4 states. More here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Hot of the press! Our article ‘Political Narratives in Political Representation’ is just published @EJPRjournal. @ZahraRunderkamp and I study how ethnic minority members of parliament use personal stories and family histories to counter stereotypes ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The Gender and Political Participation working group is seeking abstracts for Spring 2024. The call is open to all graduate students and post-docs. Info + submissions here: docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/1d…

Had a great time last week attending and presenting at the second annual @W_inLS conference! WiLS has created an awesome community of women scholars doing impressive legislative research. Very grateful to be a part of it!

@Emily_Elia @W_inLS The rooms were packed with talented women scholars. @womenalsoknow @TaubmanCtr

How many political scientists does it take to organize a group photo? Great memories from our conference last month...

@yeonsoo_park_ presents new research on public demand for LGBTQ rights in Europe:

This morning, @alisonwcraig explains how collaboration in Congress actually does exist!

Picturesque day at @BrownUniversity for the first day of @W_inLS conference ☀️ Excited to learn from a group of brilliant women in the field over the next few days.

Lots of fantastic research happening today!

Day 1 of our annual conference at Brown began today with a fantastic lunch panel on publishing strategies. Reply below with what you’re enjoying today and with your photos!

Out in paperback this December: Ana Catalano Weeks's book Making Gender Salient on the impacts of gender quotas on public policy. Preorder here: cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) at Sciences Po (Paris, France) is hiring for a one-year postdoc in policy evaluation. Applications due by November 6 - more information and application here: sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/conte…

Come join me at the @W_inLS research seminar today! 2-3 PM EST!

Job listing at Brown - assistant prof level. @BrownUPoliSci is joining an interdisciplinary search on entrepreneurship. Here is the posting apply.interfolio.com/133583. Review of applications starts November 1st. @APSAtweets @W_inLS @womenalsoknow

Learn more about Poland's recent elections and what they mean for the makeup of parliament and for democracy, from @AnnaGBusse. 📖 Read all about it here: goodauthority.org/news/how-histo…