Researchers analyzed city, county, and state election data pertaining to 212,805 US political candidates who ran for office between 1950 and 2018, and found that across numerous levels of government, men and women who narrowly won and lost elections were equally likely to run for office again; the findings suggest that gender does not affect political ambition after electoral losses, according to the authors.
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Article #20-26726: "Men and women candidates are similarly persistent after losing elections," by Rachel Bernhard and Justin de Benedictis-Kessner.
MEDIA CONTACTS: Rachel Bernhard, University of California Davis, CA; tel: 510-398-9738; email: < ribernhard@ucdavis.edu >; Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; tel: 510-847-0867; email: < jdbk@hks.harvard.edu >
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences