鈥淧eople tend to discount the effect that Hillary Clinton probably had on the number of women running for office,鈥� said Christina Ladam, a CU Boulder political science graduate student and the study鈥檚 lead author. 鈥淭here鈥檚 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.鈥�
Read more about the reasearch that Christina Ladam - a聽CU political science graudate student- is conducting on women running for political office here.