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The Complicated Relationship between Sex, Gender and the Substantive Representation of Women
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Abstract Simply counting the numbers of women present in politics is an inadequate basis for theorizing the difference they might make. Drawing on research on British MPs (interviews with Labour women MPs first elected in 1997, analysis of Labour MPs’ voting behav... mehr
Simply counting the numbers of women present in politics is an inadequate basis for theorizing the difference they might make. Drawing on research on British MPs (interviews with Labour women MPs first elected in 1997, analysis of Labour MPs’ voting behaviour and signing of early day motions in the 1997 parliament, and MPs’ participation in parliamentary debates accompanying the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act), this article shows how insights gained from empirical research can inform and improve our theorizing. It suggests that the relationship between women’s descriptive and substantive representation is better conceived as complicated rather than straightforward.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Gender
Freie Schlagwörter
British politics; New Labour; sex; women’s descriptive and substantive representation;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 7-21
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Women's Studies, 13 (2006) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506806060003
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)