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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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Gender diversity in sport leadership: an investigation of United States of America National Governing Bodies of Sport
TL;DR: This article examined the gender diversity within the governance structures of the National Governing Bodies of sport (NGBs) that fall under the remit of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
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Justifying Parity in France after the Passage of the so-called Parity Laws and the Electoral Application of them: The ‘Ideological Tinkering’ of Political Party Officials (UMP and PS) and Women's NGOs
TL;DR: A qualitative survey of French party officials and NGO leaders at the local and national levels shows pragmatic consensus on the necessity of using legislative means to promote gender equality in political representation as discussed by the authors.
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Elite patriarchal bargaining in post-genocide Rwanda and post-apartheid South Africa: women political elites and post-transition African parliaments
TL;DR: Thesis (Ph.D. as discussed by the authors, Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences, South Africa, 2016, Section 7.
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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.