Acknowledgments

The staff and scholars at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) were integral at various stage of this report’s development. Special thanks to Chelsea Hill, CAWP’s Data Services Manager, for conducting and managing the data collection that is essential to all of our analyses. Thanks to key members of our research team Shikshya Adhikari and Thu Nguyen for their extensive contributions of time, expertise, and attention to detail. Thank you to Amy Benner, Michelle Irving, Sandhya Rajagopalan, Shelby Vittek for their excellent research assistance, and to Daniel De Simone for valuable feedback. Finally, Debbie Walsh’s leadership remains essential to moving all of CAWP’s research, including this work on women in elections, forward.