Discrimination: Why Women Outperform Men in Congress

Kamala Harris could be the first woman to ever serve as president or vice president. Why are women so underrepresented in our government? We discuss a paper from Profs. Christopher Berry at the University of Chicago and Sarah Anzia at UC Berkeley that assesses discrimination against women in the electoral process by testing how women perform once in office.  Link to paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00512.x