I’ll Bring Home the Bacon. Fry it Up in a Pan.

The Monkey Cage reports on research that finds that women congressional leaders are more likely to sponsor pork-barrel legislation.

We find that congresswomen secure roughly 9 percent more spending from
federal discretionary programs than congressmen. This amounts to a
premium of about $49 million per year for districts that send a woman
to Capitol Hill. Finally, we find that women’s superiority in securing
particularistic benefits does not hurt their performance in
policymaking: women also sponsor more bills and obtain more
cosponsorship support for their legislative initiatives than their male
colleagues.

This may be because women have to work harder to get re-elected than men. They have to spend more time credit-claiming and position-taking. Pork-barrel legislation is a form of credit-claiming.