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Advances and Ambivalence: The Consequences of Women's Educational and Workforce Changes for Women's Political Participation in the United States, 1952 to 2012

Ashley Jardina, Nancy Burns
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 272-301; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.10
Ashley Jardina
aAssistant professor of political science in the Department of Political Science at Duke University
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bWarren E. Miller Collegiate Professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan
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