Jennifer M. Piscopo

Jennifer M. Piscopo is Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College. With Susan Franceschet and Mona Lena Krook, she is editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas. She coedits the Western Political Science Association’s journal, Politics, Groups, and Identities. Her popular writing on women in politics has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Ms. Magazine.

 

Moving History Along

Quotas and parity cannot make women equal to men.

  • Jennifer M. Piscopo

What Does It Take to Get Women Elected?

If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

  • Jennifer M. Piscopo
with responses from
  • Alice Eagly
  • Suzanne Dovi
  • Dawn Langan Teele
  • Kerry L. Haynie
  • Kelly Dittmar
  • Emily Cain

Without Women There Is No Democracy

On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.

  • Jennifer M. Piscopo
  • Shauna L. Shames
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