Women in Executive Power

Gretchen Bauer is professor and chair in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, USA. Manon Tremblay is professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

• 1. Introduction Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay 2. Arab States Vânia Carvalho Pinto 3. South and Southeast Asia Andrea Fleschenberg 4. Oceania Jennifer Curtin and Marian Sawer 5. Central and Eastern Europe Maxime Forest 6. Sub-Saharan Africa Gretchen Bauer 7. Latin America Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones 8. North America Farida Jalalzai and Manon Tremblay 9. Western Europe Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan 10. Nordic Countries Christina Bergqvist 11. Conclusion Manon Tremblay and Gretchen Bauer

'Overall this is a very tightly structured collection. The abstract and introduction of the book provide invaluable guidelines with regard to its layout and aims, and a concluding chapter further strengthens the comparative nature of the collection. [The book painted] a detailed picture of a messy reality—where no simple correlations exist between, for example, economic wealth and gender parity, or indeed between types of political regime and the feminisation of government.' - Gwendolyn Windpassinger, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 20, 1, 2012