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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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Women grab back: exclusion, policy threat, and women’s political ambition
American Political Science Association
Previous work suggests that observing women officeholders increases women’s political ambition. Yet, jumps in women’s representation in the United States’ “Years of the Woman”—following the Anita Hill testimonies and the election of Donald Trump—are...
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Friday, August 18, 2023
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Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning and Governing.
Cambridge University Press
There is a fast-growing body of literature on women’s political representation in Africa—a continent that often challenges the existing beliefs and common understandings of women’s representation in politics developed in the Global North. A recent...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2023
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Women’s interest in entering politics surged after Dobbs. So why aren’t they running?
Roll Call
Susanna Gibson remembers where she was and what she was doing on June 24, 2022, the way some remember 9/11 or the Challenger explosion. The nurse practitioner was sitting at her kitchen table in Henrico, Va., going over some patient charts, when her...
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Monday, May 15, 2023
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Women in legislative studies: improving gender equality
Cambridge University Press
Representation of women in the field of legislative politics is remarkably small and the absence of women has wide-ranging ramifications. In Fall 2019, we surveyed 361 women that we identified as studying legislative politics within political...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2023
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Why women haven’t been successful in Nigerian elections
Carnegie Endowment For Peace
Women’s representation in political offices continued to decline in the 2023 elections. Four main factors help explain why Africa’s largest economy is such a difficult space for women candidates. Women’s representation in Nigerian politics has been...
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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
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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...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
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War, revolution, and the expansion of women’s political representation
Cambridge University Press
Women’s political rights and their exercise of political citizenship globally have often expanded more rapidly in times of conflict, crisis, and revolution. The decline of empires after World Wars I and II and the creation of new nations served as a...
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Women’s representation in India’s parliament: Measuring progress, analysing obstacles (Observer Research Foundation)
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
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Women’s representation in India’s parliament: Measuring progress, analysing obstacles
Observer Research Foundation
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...
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Why women earn high marks: Examining the role of partisanship and gender in political evaluations (Cambridge Core)
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Why women earn high marks: Examining the role of partisanship and gender in political evaluations
Cambridge
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...
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Friday, July 15, 2022
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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...
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Women’s education and political participation in Cameroon /Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
Thursday, January 27, 2022
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Women’s education and political participation in Cameroon
International Journal of Advanced Education and Research
By Tapan Kumar Sahu, Kusum Yadav The paper empirically examined the relationship between education level and political participation of women. The indices of political participation include the following: membership of political party, voting in...
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Friday, November 06, 2020
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Women want an answer! Field experiments on elected officials and gender bias
Journal of Experimental Political Science
Are elected officials more responsive to men than women inquiring about access to government services? Women face discrimination in many realms of politics, but evidence is limited on whether such discrimination extends to interactions between women...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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Women & Politics: Changing trends and emerging patterns executive summary
This collaborative report between, Lokniti a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung has attempted to look at women and politics from a multi-track perspective. While the assessment relied quite...
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Friday, November 08, 2019
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Women are more likely than men to leave politics after an early loss
UCLA Anderson Review
Americans elected more than 100 women to office in the 2018 midterm elections, but women still hold less than a quarter of the seats in Congress. Why are women so poorly represented? Theories include: women are less politically ambitious; there is a...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2019
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Women to the rescue: The gendered effects of public discontent on legislative nominations in Latin America
Sage Journals
Political parties act as gatekeepers, meaning that improvements in the representation of women depend on parties’ willingness to nominate women candidates. Previous research suggests that party characteristics and gender quotas largely explain women...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2019
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Women in local government: what we know and where we go from here
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Women are underrepresented in most elected and appointed positions in local government in the United States. This essay details what we know about women’s representation in cities and counties, with a discussion of the factors associated with women’...
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Friday, December 07, 2018
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Women in politics: Gaining ground for progressive outcomes in Pakistan
Institute of Development Studies
Inclusive politics remains an elusive goal in Pakistan, which has a history of military interference in governance institutions, unstable elected governments and internecine conflict. Women’s voices, within the corridors of power or as constituents...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
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Working paper: Maternal mortality and women’s political participation
Navarra Center for International Development
Maternal mortality, defined as the death of women within 42 days of childbirth, remains a looming global health problem well into the 21st century. It is estimated to account for 830 deaths per day, and more than 216 deaths per 100,000 live births...
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