The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.Gender stereotypes about female politicians and voters still exist.Since gaining the right to vote in 1920, women have worked in many levels of government in the United States. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan named Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Supreme Court justice. Currently, three of the nine sitting justices are women.Despite the increasing presence of women in American politics, gender stereotypes still exist. Data from the 2006 American National Election Studies Pilot Study showed that voters of both sexes, regardless of their political persuasions, expected men to perform better as politicians than women.Because gender is considered to be a master status, "women" are considered to be a political demographic. In other words, the "women" are supposed to have certain political priorities (usually those having to do with children and education) that unite
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