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When @publichistory and @EmilyCleffiT asked me to contribute to this, I realized that I needed to do some reading first to help organize my thoughts (shocking, right?). If you’re interested in what I read, here’s a list. https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/reflections-on-gender-equality-and-the-19th-amendment-at-100/
This piece by @cmMcConnaughy on the complex politics of the 19th amendment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/03/31/forget-susan-b-anthony/?arc404=true
The contribution from @C_Wolbrecht and Corder on the contingent nature of suffrage here: https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/justice-demands-the-vote-100-years-of-womens-suffrage/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=suffrage
. @MicheleSwers's book on women in the Senate, which discusses what issues female senators pay attention to https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo15233103.html
Two papers from the @TheLawmakers team ( @craigvolden, Wiseman, and Wittmer): this one on women's legislative effectiveness https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12010
And this one on the fate of women's issues in Congress: https://thelawmakers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/womens_issues_and_their_fates_in_the_us_congress.pdf
And last but not least, this paper from Thomsen and Sanders on how women legislators are more responsive to requests from their constituents: https://daniellethomsen.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/thomsensanders2020.pdf
