provide more, or more effective, representation to women on policy issues important to the interests of women. This paper … presence of women in Congress will influence the participation of their male colleagues on legislation bearing on women …'s interests. Using fixed-effect models, preliminary findings indicate that higher levels of women in the U.S. House spur …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … home. Frontier women were less likely to report “gainful employment,” but among those who did, relatively more had high …-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women—some emphasizing their entrepreneurial …