Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact?

How do men's and women's paths to political office differ? Once in office, are women's powers more constrained than those of men?

Farida Jalalzai is the Hannah Atkins Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University.

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Women Executives: The Literature
3 Women Executives: Positions, Selections, Systems, and Powers
4 A More In-Depth Analysis of Executive Positions and Paths
5 General Backgrounds of Women Leaders
6 Specific Pathways to Power: Political Families and Activism
7 A Statistical Analysis of Women's Rule
8 An Overview of Female Presidential Candidacies
9 Close but Not Close Enough: The Historic Candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Ségolène Royal
10 Conclusions on Women Executives and Directions for Future Research
Appendix: Bibliographies of Women Leaders, 1960-2010
Notes
References
Index