Academic Paper / Article

Summit for Democracy Cohort on Gender Equality as a Prerequisite for Democracy

International IDEA

During the Summit for Democracy Year of Action, the S4D cohort on Gender Equality as a Prerequisite for Democracy identified recommendations for strengthening democracy by promoting gender equality, Statement and Roadmap of recommendations. The co-...

Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in October 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Women in politics: To run or not to run?

The Conversation

Despite progress towards gender equality, women’s representation in Canadian politics continues to fall short. With only 30 per cent of seats in the House of Commons held by women, there is still a long way to go for Parliament to capture the...

Missing: Vital Voices of Lebanese Women in Politics

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Lebanese American University

Missing: Vital Voices of Lebanese Women in Politics

This paper provides an overview of Lebanese women’s participation in political decision- making through a case study of women’s participation in the parliamentary elections of 2022 from a gender perspective. The paper asks, why are the vital voices...

Monday, February 20, 2023

Book: Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies

Routledge

This book addresses the central question of how right-wing women navigate the cross-pressures between gender identity and political ideology. The hope has always been that more women in politics would lead to greater inclusion of women’s voices and...

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Cambridge University Press

Can’t we all just get along? How women MPs can ameliorate affective polarization in Western publics

Abstract Concern over partisan resentment and hostility has increased across Western democracies. Despite growing attention to affective polarization, existing research fails to ask whether who serves in office affects mass-level interparty...

Monday, January 23, 2023

Cambridge University Press

Crisis, gender role congruency, and perceptions of executive leadership

Extract At a time of pandemics, international economic downturns, and increasing environmental threats due to climate change, countries around the world are facing numerous crises. What impact might we expect these crises to have on the already...

Friday, November 25, 2022

Taylor and Francis Online

The blame game: Analyzing gender bias in Danish local elections

Diagnosing women’s under-representation in electoral politics often involves a “blame game,” seeking to identify the primary factor responsible for depressing the share of women among candidates as well as elected officials. The Danish electoral...

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Quantifying gender biases towards politicians on Reddit

Plos One

increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equal female representation. This is likely tied to implicit gender biases against women in authority. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of gender biases that...

Women’s representation in India’s parliament: Measuring progress, analysing obstacles (Observer Research Foundation)

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Observer Research Foundation

Women’s representation in India’s parliament: Measuring progress, analysing obstacles

Women’s representation in India’s Parliament is an important metric to evaluate progress in bridging gender inequities in the country. India has a female population of 662.9 million and is the largest and one of the most resilient parliamentary...

Friday, November 11, 2022

Gender and politics in Portugal

Oxford Academic

This chapter surveys the literature on gender and politics in Portugal, focusing on explanations for gender differences in political participation and representation. We map trends in women’s inclusion in key areas of political life: from...

Criminalizing violence against women in politics: Innovation, diffusion, and transformation (Cambridge)

Friday, November 04, 2022

Criminalizing violence against women in politics: Innovation, diffusion, and transformation

Violence against women politicians is increasingly recognized as an issue that undermines women’s presence in politics. Latin America has been at the vanguard of this global discussion. In 2012, Bolivia became the only country in the world to...

Gender and violence against political candidates: Lessons from Sri Lanka (Cambridge)

Thursday, November 03, 2022

Gender and violence against political candidates: Lessons from Sri Lanka

A nascent body of literature has highlighter the violence (broadly defined) that women sometimes face as they enter politics. Some interpretations depict this violence as primarily gender motivated: women politicians are targeted because they are...

Why women earn high marks: Examining the role of partisanship and gender in political evaluations (Cambridge Core)

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Why women earn high marks: Examining the role of partisanship and gender in political evaluations

This article presents the results of a randomized survey experiment demonstrating that the public evaluates women politicians more highly than men across multiple characteristic assessments. This finding is consistent with a recent wave of research...

Equal representation? The debate over gender quotas (Part 2) - Picture Harvard International Review

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Harvard International Review

Equal representation? The debate over gender quotas (Part 2)

This article is the second in a two-part series examining the impact of gender quotas. The first article discussed the structure of gender quotas and their general impacts. Gender quotas play a varied and complex role in political life; every...

Between Westminster and Brussels: Putting the “Parliament” in parliamentary ethnography (Cambridge University Press)

Friday, August 12, 2022

Cambridge University Press

Between Westminster and Brussels: Putting the “Parliament” in parliamentary ethnography

Gender and politics scholars are increasingly making appeals to ethnographic methodology to bring important contributions to understand the reproduction of gender, gender hierarchies, gendered relations, and their redress in parliamentary settings....

A quantitative study of the questions asked by women members in Lok Sabha (1999–2019): Performance of women in Parliament (EPW)

Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Economic and Political Weekly

A quantitative study of the questions asked by women members in Lok Sabha (1999–2019): Performance of women in Parliament

The performance of women legislators is analysed by looking at the nature of questions posed by them over a span of 20 years (1999–2019) in the lower house of the Indian Parliament. The analysis, however, is a contestation of claims that suggest...

BBC / Getty Images (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-62053997)

Friday, July 15, 2022

Women in Tunisia: Has a female prime minister changed Tunisia?

BBC

Tunisia has seen a marked shift in attitudes towards women political leaders since Najla Bouden became the first female prime minister in the Arab world. However, this doesn't mean that life has dramatically improved for Tunisia's women, writes BBC...

Not just sticks and stones: Psychological abuse and physical violence among U.S. state senators (Picture: Cambridge)

Friday, July 15, 2022

Not just sticks and stones: Psychological abuse and physical violence among U.S. state senators

In this study, we report results of a survey of U.S. state senators about their experiences of psychological abuse, physical violence, and sexualized abuse and violence on the job, as well as gender differences among senators. Overall, our results...