What to Do About Women in Politics with Ruth Mandel

Ruth Mandel has been the Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers since 1995. She is also a founder and Director of Eagleton's Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a member of the Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium. She is a scholar and Board of Governors Professor of Politics, teaching and writing about leadership with emphasis on U.S. women's political history, women as political candidates and officeholders, women's political networks, and the "gender gap." She discusses her founding of CAWP in 1971 at Eagleton and presents important milestones in its history, including publication of the book “Political Women” and production of the film “Just One of the Boys.”
This video is part of the Women’s Education and Leadership Digital Collection at Rutgers. The project is a continuation of the work started by the Institute for Women’s Leadership’s 2016 documentary film, From the Boarding House to the Boardroom: 250 Years of Women at Rutgers, commissioned as part of Rutgers University 250th anniversary celebration.
In collaboration with the Margery Somers Foster Center and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, the IWL strives to preserve and curate the materials collected as part of this documentary project, developing a digital platform accessible to the public. The IWL hopes to expand to this collection, capturing the transformative contributions of women at Rutgers University and sharing their leadership stories with future generations of students and scholars.
Watch the short documentary about women in Rutgers’ history, ‘From the Boarding House to the Boardroom: 250 Years of Women at Rutgers,’ here: • From the Boarding Hous...