Product Description: This book examines how women candidates, voters, and office holders shape U.S. political processes and institutions, lending their perspectives to gradually evolve American life and values.• Presents up-to-date encyclopedic coverage of a subject of great importance: women's progress in closing the gender gap in political power• Provides valuable context and illuminates specific areas of women's involvement in politics―for example, women as voters and women as local/state officeholders―in a nonpartisan way• Offers both historical and current primary documents on the evolution of women in politic...read more