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39% of the women running in congressional primaries this year are Republican, compared to 26% in 2018.
Political science informs why GOP women tend to lag behind, + helps explain why they are doing slightly better this year. Read here https://53eig.ht/2W16PFx
Some links below
Political science informs why GOP women tend to lag behind, + helps explain why they are doing slightly better this year. Read here https://53eig.ht/2W16PFx
Some links below
First, their party doesn't invest in getting them elected.
Historically, elite GOP donors are just much less likely to prioritize electing women, @MCrowderMeyer and Cooperman find https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/698848
Historically, elite GOP donors are just much less likely to prioritize electing women, @MCrowderMeyer and Cooperman find https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/698848
Next, recruitment matters, and Democrats have many more groups committed to recruiting and training women to run than the GOP @malligao (Chapter 3 http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009911)
Third, D women have a head start. They are more likely to occupy traditional candidacy pools, and therefore have political experience. In other words, yes the pipeline is gendered, but it also favors Democrats according to Thomsen and King https://daniellethomsen.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/thomsenking_genderpipeline-1.pdf
Plus, there is all sorts of sexism tied up here that I didn't touch on much in this article, unfortunately, except to say that more Democratic voters agree we should to elect more women than Republican voters
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/09/20/women-and-leadership-2018/
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/09/20/women-and-leadership-2018/
So, if you want to change the outlook for women in your party, you can start there. And in 2020 the GOP has taken modest steps towards recruiting, endorsing, and supporting women and it shows in their modest progress here.
I'll wrap this up by saying historically, beyond descriptive representation, a virtue of electing more women from both parties is that women in office have been much better at representing the interests of women, and reaching across the aisle to do so. ...But that's changing 
