{"id":504,"date":"2012-03-16T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:51:21","slug":"center-for-women-and-politics-rutgers-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2012\/03\/16\/center-for-women-and-politics-rutgers-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Women and Politics, Rutgers University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/\">http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/<\/a><br \/>\nGreat starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections.\u00a0 The 2012 project is aiming to increase female political participation. It includes:<br \/>\n2012 Women&#8217;s Election Tracker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/site\/pages\/election_tracker.php\">http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/site\/pages\/election_tracker.php<\/a> which is following the progress of women through this election cycle \u2013 it has state by state statistics for women in Congress and state legislatures, open seats created by retirements and term limits and links to the latest information about women who have filed and won primaries in 2012.<br \/>\nAlso available are fact sheets \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/fast_facts\/elections\/presidential_watch.php\">http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/fast_facts\/elections\/presidential_watch.php<\/a> on women\u2019s involvement in presidential elections and historical statistics on voting patterns and voter turnout: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/fast_facts\/voters\/turnout.php\">http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/fast_facts\/voters\/turnout.php<\/a><br \/>\nUseful example of a user education site is the long established vote411 from the League of Women Voters. Look at the online voters\u2019 guide to compare candidates\u2019 positions in individual states\/ races. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote411.org\/\">http:\/\/www.vote411.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/ Great starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections.\u00a0 The 2012 project is aiming to increase female political participation. It includes: 2012 Women&#8217;s Election Tracker http:\/\/www.cawp.rutgers.edu\/site\/pages\/election_tracker.php which is following the progress of women through this election cycle \u2013 it has state by state statistics for women in Congress and state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[41,242,85,95,99],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-democracy","tag-politics","tag-statistics","tag-usa","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5592,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}