Socialization to Power:

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Several major studies of women and politics have suggested that women are underrepresented as political actors primarily because of sex role socialization and/or institutional sexism. This study suggests that power is the critical aspect of politics, and to understand women's political exclusion we must examine gender based differences in power orientations. Forty-four respondents volunteered to undergo a battery of scales measuring their power orientations and political behavior. Although aggregate power differences were not uncovered, power orientations and gender produced interactive effects on political behavior. High power men and high power women behave different politically. Power orientations are therefore suggested as an iportant aspect of gender based participatory differences.

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