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Women who run for office inspire others to do the same, study suggests

“People tend to discount the effect that Hillary Clinton probably had on the number of women running for office,” said Christina Ladam, a Boulder political science graduate student and the study’s lead author. “There’s strong support for the idea that she may have served as a symbolic role model for women to think that they can do it, too.”

Read more about the reasearch that Christina Ladam - a  political science graudate student- is conducting on women running for political office here.