Silent Sex

Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvChristopher F. Karpowitz,Tali Mendelberg,Christopher F Karpowitz

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Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using groundbreaking experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg demonstrate how the effects of rules depend on women's numbers, so that small numbers are not fatal with a consensus process, but consensus is not always beneficial when there are large numbers of women. Men and women enter deliberative settings facing different expectations about their influence and authority.Karpowitz and Mendelberg reveal how the wrong institutional rules can exacerbate women's deficit of authority while the right rules can close it, and, in the process, establish more cooperative norms of group behavior and more generous policies for the disadvantaged. Rules and numbers have far-reaching implications for the representation of women and their interests. Bringing clarity and insight to one of today's most contentious debates, The Silent Sex provides important new findings on ways to bring women's voices into the conversation on matters of common concern.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-08-24
Mått152 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt652 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor472
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691159768
UtmärkelserWinner of American Political Science Association: Political Psychology Section Robert E. Lane Award 2015

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List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Problem 8 Chapter 2: The Sources of the Gender Gap in Political Participation 33 Chapter 3: Why Women Don't Speak 51 Chapter 4: The Deliberative Justice Experiment 97 Chapter 5: Speech as a Form of Participation: Floor Time and Perceived Influence 114 Chapter 6: What Makes Women the "Silent Sex" When Their Status Is Low? 143 Chapter 7: Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice? 167 Chapter 8: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction 200 Chapter 9: When Women Speak, Groups Listen--Sometimes: How and When Women's Voice Shapes the Group's Generosity 239 Chapter 10: Gender Inequality in School Boards 273 Conclusion 305 Appendixes 359 References 409 Index 445

Co-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology "This book examines the extent of the contributions by men and women to public discussions about subjects of common concern. Karpowitz and Mendelberg find evidence of a significant difference in contributions--with men contributing more--and show how gender composition and rules dramatically affect what a group ultimately decides."--Choice

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