--- title: Girl Scouts Research Institute: Girls Think Politics Is a Man's World description: Teenage girls are interested in politics, but negative stereotypes of female politicians make them reluctant to pursue political careers. canonical: https://time.com/3543905/girl-scouts-poll-girls-politics-gender/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-28T16:50:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:13.286Z og:title: Study Says Most Girls Think Politics Is A Man's World og:description: Teenage girls are interested in politics, but negative stereotypes of female politicians make them reluctant to pursue political careers. og:url: https://time.com/3543905/girl-scouts-poll-girls-politics-gender/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Study Says Most Girls Think Politics Is A Man's World twitter:description: Teenage girls are interested in politics, but negative stereotypes of female politicians make them reluctant to pursue political careers. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Poll: Most Girls Think Politics Is a Man's World > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 28, 2014 4:50 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 28, 2014 4:50 PM UTC Teenage girls are interested in politics, according to a recent study, but the negative stereotypes of female politicians make them reluctant to pursue political careers. According to the [Girls and Politics Pulse Poll](http://www.girlscouts.org/research/pdf/girls%5Fand%5Fpolitics.pdf) released this month by the Girl Scout Research Institute, 67% of American girls between the ages of 11 and 17 are interested in politics. But only 32% believe society encourages women to be politicians, and, perhaps most dismaying, 74% believe that if they were to go into politics, they would have to work harder than a man to be taken seriously. With women currently holding only [18.5% of the seats](http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast%5Ffacts/levels%5Fof%5Foffice/documents/cong.pdf) in Congress, these results unfortunately aren’t entirely surprising. “Girls can’t be what they can’t see,” Girl Scouts chief executive Anna Maria Chávez [told the Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/10/28/girl-scouts-poll-suggests-that-teens-see-politics-as-a-mans-world/). But the girls who responded to the survey had some suggestions for how to change the perception of politics as a man’s world–they want more support from teachers, mentors and the media. 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