Research Report-Pipeline to the Future 2000
"Pipeline to the Future: Young Women and Political Leadership" research reveals that there are concrete ways to attract young women to a career in political life. The findings detail the messages and tools necessary to change young women's concerns about getting involved in politics: providing mentors, connections and opportunities for hands-on experience; providing role models; increasing young women's confidence; and showing young women how politics can make a positive difference in people's lives.
For young women, seeing how politics works, meeting or hearing about women who have been successful in politics, and learning how politics can solve problems can change their opinions that politics is only for old white men. This research shows that young women are not cynical or apathetic about politics -- they just don't know where to start.