Gender and Politics in the 2016 U.S. Election and Beyond.

We are delighted to introduce the Gender and Politics Special Collection. The need for a special collection on gender and politics has never been timelier, evidenced both by gains in women's political participation and leadership around the world and the 2016 presidential election in the United States. Here, we introduce the timeliness of the topic with a review of the remarkable progress women have made in political representation over the past 150 years, a reiteration of the importance of women's political representation to democracy, and a brief discussion of the 2016 U.

Gender Quotas for Legislatures and Corporate Boards.

The global proliferation of quotas for women over the past 30 years is both remarkable and consequential. Targeting decision-making positions historically resistant to women's equal inclusion, the adoption of electoral and corporate board quotas has at times been controversial. After adoption, quotas have influenced women's numbers, the performance and outcomes of decision-making bodies, and broader public attitudes.

Year of the Woman, Decade of the Man: trajectories of growth in women's state legislative representation.

The expansion of women's political representation ranks among the most significant trends in American politics of the last 100 years. In this paper, we develop two longitudinal theories to explain patterns of growth and change in women's state legislative representation over time. Gender salience suggests that years in which women's absence from politics is problematized (e.