Rachel Silbermann
Social Science Researcher and Consultant, Connecticut Voices for Children
Chapter Member: Connecticut SSN
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About Rachel
Silbermann’s research and teaching focus on American politics; the politics of race; class; and gender; political psychology; and empirical methodology. She is broadly interested in why certain people and groups of people get involved in politics and others do not. She was a Policy Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University in 2013-2014.
Contributions
In the News
Quoted by Mary E. O'Leary in "Bond Lock Provisions in Connecticut Raises Questions, Concerns," New Haven Register, May 11, 2018.
Research discussed by , in "Are Family Responsibilities Keeping Women out of Politics," The Washington Post, January 26, 2015.
Publications
"Gender Roles, Work-Life Balance, and Running for Office" Quarterly Journal of Political Science 10, no. 2 (2015): 123-153.
Argues that work-life-balance concerns dissuade otherwise-interested women from running for public office.