Women, Power, and Political Representation

Women, Power, and Political Representation
Author: Roosmarijn de Geus
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-07-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1487536461

Delving into the pressing topic of gender and politics, this volume provides fresh comparative perspectives on "what works" to promote women in politics today. Inspiring and informative, Women, Power, and Political Representation offers a comprehensive overview of the role women play in contemporary politics, and pinpoints the reasons behind their underrepresentation. Discussing the challenges and opportunities women face when running for office, as well as their experiences as political leaders, this book offers a broad and thoughtful overview of the pitfalls encountered by women, from gender biases to sexual harassment, in the notoriously male dominated political arena. Featuring a range of voices that articulate a path towards women’s political advancement and equality, Women, Power, and Political Representation is an important and timely resource for scholars, students, and women working professionally in Canadian and international politics.

Stalled

Stalled
Author: Linda Trimble
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774825235

Following significant increases in women’s electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Despite some high-profile successes at the provincial level, there are now only a few more women in Canada’s parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the representational gains for women and why does gender parity remain so elusive? To answer these questions, Stalled provides a provides a detailed roadmap of women’s political representation as candidates, office-holders, cabinet ministers, party leaders, and as representatives of the Crown at all levels of government across Canada. Prospects for gender parity in political office are assessed in each jurisdiction and institution. Explanations are re-examined and analyzed using data from across the country. The representation of women in elected and appointed offices is an important indicator of both gender equality and the overall health of democratic governance. By this measure Canada continues to fall short.

Electing a Diverse Canada

Electing a Diverse Canada
Author: Caroline Andrew
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774858583

Electing a Diverse Canada presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada. Covering eleven cities, as well as Canada's Parliament, it breaks new ground by assessing the representation of diverse identity groups across multiple levels of government. Electoral representation is an important indicator of a democracy's health, and this book provides both a baseline for future research and an outline of the key challenges facing Canadian democracy.

Still Counting

Still Counting
Author: Linda Trimble
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442600543

"Still Counting is a state-of-the-art examination of women's involvement in Canadian politics.... This book belongs on the shelf of anyone with an interest in contemporary Canadian politics." - Lisa Young, University of Calgary

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics
Author: Manon Tremblay
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2020-11-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030492400

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category of analysis. Its premise is that political actors’ identities frame how Canadian politics is thought, told, and done; in turn, Canadian politics, as a set of ideas, state institutions and decision-making processes, and civil society mobilizations, does and redoes gender. Following the standard structure of mainstream introductory Canadian politics textbooks, this handbook is divided into four sections (ideologies, institutions, civil society, and public policy) each of which contains several chapters on topics commonly taught in Canadian politics classes. The originality of the handbook lies in its approach: each chapter reviews the basics of a given topic from the perspective of gendered/sexualized and other intersectional identities. Such an approach makes the handbook the only one of its kind in Canadian Politics.

Mind the Gaps

Mind the Gaps
Author: Roberta Lexier
Publisher: Fernwood Books Limited
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781552665534

"" Table of Contents Introduction: Why We Should Mind the Gender Gap? Tamara A. Small & Roberta Lexier 1. Doing the Work of Representation, Nova Scotia Style Louise Carbert & Naomi Black 2. Public Attitudes Towards Increasing Women's Political Representation in Canada Joanna Everitt & Elisabeth Gidengil 3. Explaining the Modern Gender Gap Elisabeth Gidengil, Joanna Everitt, André Blais, Patrick Fournier & Neil Nevitte 4. Waffling Towards Parity: The Waffle Movement, Women's and Gender Equity in the New Democratic Party Roberta Lexier 5. Quebec Feminists and Politics: From Nationalism to the Electoral Arena Chantal Maillé 6. Does the Boomerang Return? Transnational Activism, Domestic Feminist Organizing and the Case of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action L. Pauline Rankin 7. Fashion, Flirtation, and Fringe Feminists: The Queer Presence in News Coverage of the 1984 Canadian Leadership Debate on Women's Issues Samantha C. Thrift 8. What is She Wearing? What is She Saying? Framing Gender and Women Politicians Representations Mireille Lalancette & Catherine Lemarier-Saulnier ""

Doing Politics Differently?

Doing Politics Differently?
Author: Sylvia B. Bashevkin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9780774860840

"Women have reached the highest levels of public office in Canada's provinces and territories, but what difference - if any - has their rise to the top made? Have they changed the content, tone, and style of politics? What role has gender played in their triumph and defeat? In Doing Politics Differently? leading researchers from across the country assess the track records of eleven premiers, including their impact on policies of particular interest to women and their influence on the tenor of legislative debate and the recruitment of other women as party candidates, cabinet ministers, and senior bureaucrats. Canada stands out for the variety and number of women who have reached the top in sub-national government. By evaluating the performance of women premiers across the country and comparing their records with those of men who preceded and succeeded them, this innovative volume probes how important demographic diversity is to government decision making."--

100 Questions about Women and Politics

100 Questions about Women and Politics
Author: Manon Tremblay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773555447

Both yesterday's suffragists and today's feminists have battled for women to vote and hold office, and their successes have made it possible for countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Iceland, Liberia, and the United Kingdom to have female heads of state. Despite these notable advances, women are still largely underrepresented in parliaments and governments around the world. Why, after so many years of feminist struggle, are women still obstructed from full political citizenship by a glass ceiling? Manon Tremblay's 100 Questions about Women and Politics discusses electoral politics in Canada and abroad, focusing on women's rights to vote and run for office in legislative elections, political parties, voting systems, electoral quotas for women, and participation in parliaments and governments. Against a background of observations taken from academic research, Tremblay uses an innovative approach by dividing her book into 100 questions and answers to address a range of important issues. Are electorates sexist or lesbophobic? Are family responsibilities a real obstacle to women's engagement in politics? What strategies are available to increase the number of female politicians? Are gender quotas democratic? Once elected to office, do women represent women? How does women's political citizenship in Canada compare to that in other countries? A timely book on the unfinished work of representative democracy, 100 Questions about Women and Politics takes a comprehensive yet concise approach to demystifying the major issues dominating the study of gender and government.

Queering Representation

Queering Representation
Author: Manon Tremblay
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774861843

Political representation matters. And representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering Representation explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. What are the LGBTQ electorate’s characteristics and voting behaviours, and what empowerment has it achieved through electoral systems? How do straight voters view out LGBTQ politicians, and what part do the media play in framing these perceptions? What pathways to power do LGBTQ politicians follow? Do they represent LGBTQ people and communities in particular, and, if so, how is this role articulated? And finally, how do Canadian party ideologies shape LGBTQ representation? The contributors to Queering Representation address these questions by offering diverse, nuanced readings of political representation, shining a spotlight on relations between electoral processes and LGBTQ communities.

Women and Political Representation in Canada

Women and Political Representation in Canada
Author: Caroline Andrew
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0776604511

This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their absence from the Canadian political scene. Published in English.