Introduction : women and difference / Sue Thomas
Campaign financing / Barbara Burrell
How the public views women candidates / Kathleen Dolan
Women candidates for Congress / Heather Ondercin and Susan Welch
Different portraits, different leaders? : gender differences in U.S. senators' presentation of self / Kim L. Fridkin and Gina Serignese Woodall
Do women and men state legislators differ? / Michael J. Epstein, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell
Women and Congress : do they act as advocates for women's issues? / Michele L. Swers and Carin Larson
Women and Congress : behind the scenes / Debra Dodson
Indelible effects : the impact of women of color in the U.S. Congress / Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Katherine Tate, and Janelle Wong
Change and continuity in the geography of women state legislators / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox
Women leading legislatures : getting there and getting things done / Cindy Simon Rosenthal
In a different voice : women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene
Institutional gendering : theoretical insights into the environment of women officeholders / Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Women as political leaders worldwide : cultural barriers and opportunites / Pippa Norris & Ronald Inglehart
Prospects for cracking the political glass ceiling : the future of women officeholders in the twenty-first century / Jean Schroedel & Marcia Godwin.