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Gender and Politics: the State of the Art
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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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Gender and the Australian parliament : putting the political scientist into the picture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on a study of gender and politics in the Australian parliament in order to make a contribution to methodological debates in feminist political science and highlight the value of a reflexive approach to research.
Why are gender differences in the Swedish parliament diminishing? Inter-parliamentary and extra-parliamentary causes
TL;DR: In this paper, gender differences in representative bodies have diminished in a variety of areas, descriptively but also substantially, and the authors aim at explaining these diminishing substantial gender differences among parliamentarians.
MULHERES, POLÍTICA E SUB-REPRESENTAÇÃO. UM ESTUDO SOBRE A CORRELAÇÃO ENTRE QUALIDADE DA DEMOCRACIA, IDEOLOGIA E MULHERES NOS PARLAMENTOS. Thiago Perez Bernardes de Moraes 1
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Pluralism and political studies in the UK: a pilot study into who gets what in the discipline
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Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women
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The Politics of Presence
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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.