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Gender and Politics: the State of the Art
Sarah Childs,Mona Lena Krook +1 more
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In this paper, the authors argue that future research should focus not on the question of when women make a difference, but on how the substantive representation of women occurs, and the relationship between women's descriptive and substantive representation has been operationalised and investigated in empirical research.Abstract:
Over the last two decades, but particularly in the last 10 years, research into sex, gender and politics has become an established sub-field of political science. This article opens with some reflections on the position of ‘women and politics’ scholars and research within the British political science community. It then moves on to reflect upon the burgeoning literature on women's political representation. In particular, it questions the way in which the relationship between women's descriptive and substantive representation has been operationalised and investigated in empirical research, namely through the concept of critical mass. Seeking to reframe these debates, the article suggests that future research should focus not on the question of when women make a difference, but on how the substantive representation of women occurs.read more
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Democratic practice and policymaking at the regional level in Europe, testing the gender and diversity agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, a sociological institutionalist approach is used to explore the involvement of civil society women's organisations in the everyday processes of domestic abuse policy development across the case study regions.
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Contemporary Politics: Using the ‘F’ Word and Teaching Gender in International Relations
TL;DR: This paper explore the possibility of developing ways to teach International Relations (IR) with attention to gender as a noun, a verb and a logic, to replace "the week on gender" (that usually, but not always, falls towards the end of the term or semester) with a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which gender (as a category of identity, an approach to academic study and as an ordering logic that pre/proscribes certain behaviours and modes of being in the world) matters in/to IR.
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The hegemonic gender order in politics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the mechanisms that regulate the contemporary gender order in politics through discourse analysis and the contribution of the critical feminist perspective, focusing on 30 biographical interviews with Italian politicians and focusing on the account of their political experiences and on the meanings attributed to these.
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Gender Balance in Scottish Local Authority Councils
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the barriers to wider engagement of women in participative democracy, and based on the analysis of empirical data suggests some ways of promoting a more equitable gender representation in Scottish local authority councils.
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Gender stereotypes depicted in online sexist jokes
TL;DR: This article explored gender stereotypes depicted in online sexist jokes collected from laughfactory.com and found that the majority of the humours observed were targeted at women (90%) and a small number was targeted at men (10%).
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Men and Women of the Corporation
TL;DR: Men and Women of the Corporation: The Population, Industrial Supply Corporation: Setting Roles And Images as discussed by the authors, Men and women of the corporation: The population, the setting roles and images, the players and the stage.
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Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women
TL;DR: In this article, a framework is developed for conceptualizing the processes that occur between dominants and tokens, and three perceptual phenomena are associated with tokens: visibility, polarization, and assimilation, where tokens' attributes are distorted to fit preexisting generalizations about their social type.
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The Politics of Presence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss race-conscious districting in the USA and Canada and the Politics of Inclusion, from a politics of ideas to a Politics of Presence, and discuss loose ends and larger ambitions.
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RETHINKING TOKENISM: Looking Beyond Numbers
TL;DR: The authors assesses Rosabeth Moss Kanter's work on tokenism in light of more than a decade of research and discussion, concluding that performance pressures, social isolation, and role encapsulation were the consequences of disproportionate numbers of women and men in a workplace.