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Article: Female candidates face uphill push; Study says women seeking executive office seen as soft.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2002
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Byline: Ellen Sorokin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Female candidates face a tough time convincing voters, especially men and older women, that they have the toughness, decisiveness and background to serve in executive offices such as governor, a new study suggests.
"The conventional wisdom for women running for executive office is that she must be tough, but not too tough, smart, but not too smart, assertive but not aggressive and feminine but not girly," said Marie Wilson, president of the White House Project, which conducted the study.
Despite the growing success of female candidates for Congress and state legislatures, governorships have been ...