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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Jennifer L. Lawless serves as the current director of the Women & Politics Institute, as well as an Associate Professor of Government at American University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003 and her B.A. in from Union College in 1997; both degrees were in political science. Lawless was hired at American University in the fall of 2009. Before this, Lawless was employed at Brown University as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Lawless currently serves as the editor of Politics & Gender, a political science journal currently housed at the Women & Politics Institute.The central focuses of Lawless’s courses and research are women and politics, campaigns, and elections. Courses she has taught at American University include: "Women & Politics," "Women & Political Leadership," and "Women, Politics & Public Policy." Her research regarding female candidates and election results is published in a number of political science journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, and Women & Politics. News outlets regularly quote this scholarship, particularly during campaign season. Her commentary has appeared in newspapers such as, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other local publications. She has also been cited on CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and FOXNews.com and has published on CNN Opinion on CNN.com.Throughout her article “Sexism and Gender Bias in Election 2008: A More Complex Path for Women in Politics”, Lawless chronicles Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s race for presidential nomination in the face of sexism (mostly propagated by the American media) and what this meant for other women throughout their own careers and participation in politics. Although Lawless recognizes that Rodham-Clinton was an exception to the rule in terms of the backlash she faced during her campaign due to her previous 17 years in politics and her husband’s widely discussed extra marital affairs, she argued that Rodham-Clinton’s experience during the race “shed light on at least three gender dynamics that affect women in politics” therefore suggesting that the political terrain is more complex for women than for men. While the three gender dynamics which emerged from the 2008 election for Democratic Presidential nominee do not represent the full spectrum of obstacles which burden women in the public sphere of politics (as they are mostly based on only one woman’s experiences), they still represent the dimensions of gender and power that men in politics are not required to perform against. Overall, these dynamics include the fact that Rodham-Clinton was forced to manage her campaign within the confines of a sexist environment, recognition of this environment subsequently made other women in politics question the extent to which they were qualified for public office or were willing to face such biased scrutiny and finally, the fact that by endorsing Barack Obama over Rodham-Clinton, women were expected to justify their response at the risk of being considered a “traitor” to their gender.Furthermore while Lawless states, in many cases “women feel better about government when more women are included in positions of political power” and are accomplished in terms of fundraising and winning elections, despite these successes, women’s own perceptions of bias against their gender describes another hurdle which aggravates their reluctance to run for office. This reluctance and questioning of oneself in turn, represents the deeply embedded sexist attitudes which are prevalent throughout politics and provides one explanation for the gender gap which is still experienced and thereby reinforced. From these dynamics, especially when compared to the long established male-centric atmosphere of high politics, it becomes increasingly obvious that there continues to be sexist and biased standards which women are expected to both measure themselves against and overcome making gender a relevant factor in women’s political participation today.With Richard L. Fox, Lawless is the co-author of two books: It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010) [1] and It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She is also the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and of a Brookings Institution public policy report which Emerge America, the Women’s Campaign Forum, and other women’s organizations that recruit female political candidates frequently utilize for their own work.In 2006, Lawless ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Democratic Primary in Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district. She did not win the primary and has not run in another election. Through her work at the Women & Politics Institute and her position as a board member of Emerge America she remains active in the political arena.. }

• Jennifer_L._Lawless abstract "Jennifer L. Lawless serves as the current director of the Women & Politics Institute, as well as an Associate Professor of Government at American University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003 and her B.A. in from Union College in 1997; both degrees were in political science. Lawless was hired at American University in the fall of 2009. Before this, Lawless was employed at Brown University as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Lawless currently serves as the editor of Politics & Gender, a political science journal currently housed at the Women & Politics Institute.The central focuses of Lawless’s courses and research are women and politics, campaigns, and elections. Courses she has taught at American University include: "Women & Politics," "Women & Political Leadership," and "Women, Politics & Public Policy." Her research regarding female candidates and election results is published in a number of political science journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, and Women & Politics. News outlets regularly quote this scholarship, particularly during campaign season. Her commentary has appeared in newspapers such as, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other local publications. She has also been cited on CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and FOXNews.com and has published on CNN Opinion on CNN.com.Throughout her article “Sexism and Gender Bias in Election 2008: A More Complex Path for Women in Politics”, Lawless chronicles Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s race for presidential nomination in the face of sexism (mostly propagated by the American media) and what this meant for other women throughout their own careers and participation in politics. Although Lawless recognizes that Rodham-Clinton was an exception to the rule in terms of the backlash she faced during her campaign due to her previous 17 years in politics and her husband’s widely discussed extra marital affairs, she argued that Rodham-Clinton’s experience during the race “shed light on at least three gender dynamics that affect women in politics” therefore suggesting that the political terrain is more complex for women than for men. While the three gender dynamics which emerged from the 2008 election for Democratic Presidential nominee do not represent the full spectrum of obstacles which burden women in the public sphere of politics (as they are mostly based on only one woman’s experiences), they still represent the dimensions of gender and power that men in politics are not required to perform against. Overall, these dynamics include the fact that Rodham-Clinton was forced to manage her campaign within the confines of a sexist environment, recognition of this environment subsequently made other women in politics question the extent to which they were qualified for public office or were willing to face such biased scrutiny and finally, the fact that by endorsing Barack Obama over Rodham-Clinton, women were expected to justify their response at the risk of being considered a “traitor” to their gender.Furthermore while Lawless states, in many cases “women feel better about government when more women are included in positions of political power” and are accomplished in terms of fundraising and winning elections, despite these successes, women’s own perceptions of bias against their gender describes another hurdle which aggravates their reluctance to run for office. This reluctance and questioning of oneself in turn, represents the deeply embedded sexist attitudes which are prevalent throughout politics and provides one explanation for the gender gap which is still experienced and thereby reinforced. From these dynamics, especially when compared to the long established male-centric atmosphere of high politics, it becomes increasingly obvious that there continues to be sexist and biased standards which women are expected to both measure themselves against and overcome making gender a relevant factor in women’s political participation today.With Richard L. Fox, Lawless is the co-author of two books: It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010) [1] and It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She is also the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and of a Brookings Institution public policy report which Emerge America, the Women’s Campaign Forum, and other women’s organizations that recruit female political candidates frequently utilize for their own work.In 2006, Lawless ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Democratic Primary in Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district. She did not win the primary and has not run in another election. Through her work at the Women & Politics Institute and her position as a board member of Emerge America she remains active in the political arena.".