Women, Power, and Political Representation

Roosmarijn de Geus is a postdoctoral fellow with the Nuffield Politics Research Centre at the University of Oxford.Erin Tolley is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, and Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive. Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

• IntroductionRoosmarijn de Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter John LoewenPart One: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics1. Women’s representation in Canadian federal cabinets 1980-2019Roosmarijn de Geus and Peter John Loewen2. Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections?Semra Sevi, André Blais and Vincent Arel-Bundock 3. News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political Leaders Linda Trimble 4. Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous women’s political participation in CanadaRobyn BourgeoisPart Two: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics5. Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018 Election Julie Dolan, Paru Shah and Semilla Stripp 6. Black Women’s Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics (Dis)Respectability Politics Nadia E. Brown7. Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine CongressTiffany D. Barnes and Victoria Beall8. Women as Party Leaders Diana Z. O’Brien 9. A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada Tracey Raney and Cheryl Collier Part Three: Responses to Women’s Electoral Underrepresentation10. Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women’s Underrepresentation in PoliticsMagda Hinojosa, Miki Kittilson and Alexandra M. Williams 11. Quotas, Reserved Seats and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in AsiaNetina Tan12. Changing Minds. Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity.Chantal Maillé13. Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation: Lessons for CanadaSusan FranceschetPart Four: New Research Directions 14. Making the Case for Women’s Representation: What, Who, and WhyKelly Dittmar15. Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact Critical Actors in the Policy Making Process Malliga Och16. Too feminine to be a leader? Systematic implicit biases against women politicians Shan-Jan Sarah Liu17. Women in Politics: Beyond the heterosexual fantasyManon Tremblay, PhD18. New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women’s Contemporary Public Engagement Sylvia Bashevkin