WOMEN IN POLITICS

Kathryn McNally

Northern Arizona University

CCS 350W - Words at Work: Researching & Writing about Culture Dr. Devon

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Your Vote Does Count Elections

Rock the Vote

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Arizona’s Fab Five “We are here for business.”

“Why not?”

“… I think now I have been waiting for it all my life.”

Frances Willard Munds

Nellie T. Bush

Isabella Greenway King

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Women are still less likely to:

Even though Women are:

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Arizona State Library. "Arizona govenors; Arizona Women." Arizona State Library. 1999. http://photos.lib.az.us/photos_Detail.cfm?ID=16608 (accessed March 2010). —. "Frances Willard Munds." Arizona Woman's Hall of Fame. 1918. http://www.lib.az.us/awhof/IMAGES/women/munds.jpg (accessed February 2010). —. "Isabella Greenway King." Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. 1935. http://www.lib.az.us/awhof/women/king.cfm (accessed February 2010). —. "Nellie T. Bush." Arizona Woman's Hall of Fame. 1920. http://www.lib.az.us/awhof/women/bush.cfm (accessed February 2010). Blaney, Betsy. "A town where the good ol' boys are girls." Associated Press, 2008: 1. Carrol, Susan J. Women as Candidates in American Politics. 2nd. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994. Carroll, Susan J. Woman and American Politics : New Questions, New Directions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. Coplan, Jill Hamburg. "The un-republicans.(women in Republican leadership roles)." Working Woman, 1999: 60-64. Gabriel, Angela. "State shifting political image.(election of five women to Arizona's top five state offices)." The Business Journal - Serving Phoenix & the Valley of the Sun, 1999: 19(2). Miller, Kristie. "'I have been waiting for it all my life': The Congressional Career of Isabella Greenway." THE JOURNAL OF ARIZONA HISTORY, 2004: 121-142. Osselaer, Heidi. "'We Are Here For Business': Women in the Arizona Legislature, 1914 to 1940." Journal of the West, 2003: 17-42. Oxley, Zoe M., and Richard L. Fox. "Women in Executive Office: Variation Across American States." Political Research Quarterly, 2004: 113 (9).

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