Most of us know that women have to be more qualified than men to win political office (or do anything). My new article @JOP explains why. …https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.libezp.lib.lsu.edu/doi/full/10.1086/705817">https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.libezp.lib.lsu.edu/doi/full/...

I argue that voters hold candidates to distinctly gendered standards, and these standards vary at different stages of the voter decision-making process. So...

female candidates might receive super positive evaluations on polls asking voters to rate how qualified the candidate is for political office but then the female candidate either (a) barely wins her election or (b) loses to a dude who is just not quite as qualified.

This is because when voters evaluate a candidate& #39;s initial skills (i.e. how qualified they are) they use feminine stereotypes, but when deciding who to vote for, the shift to masculine stereotypes which creates a high bar for women and a low bar for men.

So, tl;dr voter bias toward women is sneaky but terrible. And, my forthcoming book explains all of this in MUCH more detail. Stay tuned.