Politician Anthony Weiner. Photo: US Government
In the wake of Anthony Weiner’s recent sex scandal, The New York Times published an interesting article exploring the (in)frequency of sex scandals among female politicians. In her piece, When It Comes to Scandals, Girls Won’t Be Boys, Sheryl Gay Stolberg offers several explanations and perspectives. Among them:
“The shorthand of it is that women run for office to do something, and men run for office to be somebody,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “Women run because there is some public issue that they care about, some change they want to make, some issue that is a priority for them, and men tend to run for office because they see this as a career path.”
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