Marjorie Lansing

Marjorie J. Lansing (née Tillis; April 2, 1916 – May 1, 1998) was an American political scientist and activist. She developed and popularized the idea of a gender gap in voting, in which certain candidates or issues tend to receive different levels of support from women as they do from men. She was a professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University in the 1970s and 1980s, and she taught the first course in women's studies at Eastern Michigan University. Lansing ran for a number of different public offices in Michigan.

Education and positions Lansing was born on April 2, 1916, and she grew up on a cattle ranch. She attended the Florida State College for Women, and then became a high school teacher in Sanford, Florida. but she was not successful. She died on May 1, 1998. Women and politics: The invisible majority, with Sandra Baxter (1980) Women and Politics: The visible majority, revision of the 1980 book, with Sandra Baxter (1983)