Gender Roles and Party Roles*

Diane L. Fowlkes, Jerry Perkins and Sue Tolleson Rinehart

American Political Science Review, 1979, vol. 73, issue 3, 772-780

Abstract: This article uses discriminant analysis to assess sex and party differences across four aspects of party organization: incentives for participation, party role definitions, party activities and electoral ambition. The results illustrate that gender roles operate most distinctly in the two areas of electoral ambition and party activities. Party context is more important than sex in terms of the other two areas, party role definitions and incentives for participation. The authors conclude that party activists' gender-related behavior can be better understood by discovering how the context of party organization either modifies or reinforces such behavior.

Date: 1979
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