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Postmaterialism and Post-industrialism: Cultural Influences on Female Representation in State Legislatures.
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Female representation in the United States government has increased dramatically in the last 30 years. The percentage of women in the House of Representative has increased "from 2.3 in 1970 to 12.9 in 2000" (p.1). In the Senate, the percentage has risen from 1.0 to 9.0 during the same time period. As great as these increases may seem, state legislatures however are the most dramatic, rising from a 4.0 percent in 1917 to 22.5 percent in 2000, which is more than a five time increase.
In the article "Postmaterialism and post-industrialism: Cultural influences on female representation in state legislatures", Camobreco and Barnello set out to explain this remarkable increase of female state legislative representation in the United States and provide evidence from strenuous research. Camobreco and Barnello trie to explain the impact on female representation based on the following factors: electoral strucre, college education, postmaterialism, and post-industrialism.
The electoral structure that is most influential on women representation is multimember legislative districts. Camobreco and Barnello reason that because a multimember legislative district allows more than one representative, electorates are more comfortable in choosing a woman since she will not be the only representative. So therefore a state that has more multimember legislative districts will have more female state legislators than a state with fewer of them"(p.7).
Camobreco and Barnello explain that over the last several decades, industrialized nations have faced the cultural shift, changing from "material or economic concerns to postmaterialists, or cultural issues" (p.3). This "shift" is a result from the prosperity that the western industrialized nations have acquired since World War II. People born after WW II are more attentive to cultural and social concerns because they are wealthier, relatively speaking, than the people of pre-WW II.
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