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An in-depth look at the reasons women are under-represented at every level of elected office. Kelly Dittmar has studied these trends and is out with a new report, "Unfinished Business: Women Running in 2018 and Beyond."

She spoke on Nov. 21, 2019, at the Humphrey School with political science professor Kathryn Pearson of the University of Minnesota.

Kelly Dittmar is a political science professor at Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey and a scholar at the Center for American Women in Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers. She's the co-author of the 2018 book, "A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters."

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The political science professor at Rutgers University gives an in-depth look at the reasons women are underrepresented at every level of elected office.

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