Representing Women in Parliament 1st Edition by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay, Linda Trimble ISBN 0415479525 978-0415479523

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ISBN 10: 0415479525
ISBN 13: 978-0415479523
Author: Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay, Linda Trimble 

The first book-length treatment of the political representation of women in countries with parliamentary systems based on the Westminster model.

Written by a major international team of authors, this new study features twelve chapters on both new and established parliaments, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It tests the latest theories about women’s political representation within Westminster style assemblies and is organized into three key sections that:

• examine the extent to which the descriptive representation of women in the ‘old’ Westminster parliaments has progressed in recent years, and the factors which have enhanced or impeded development.
• explore the relationship between the numbers of women elected and the substantive representation of women – or the extent that women ‘act for’ women.
• review the recent experiences of four ‘new’ Westminster parliaments (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Nunavut) and evaluate the political opportunities for women provided by the creation of new institutions.

This new comparative study will be of great interest to students and researchers of legislative studies and of gender politics and gender studies.

Representing Women in Parliament 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Patterns and Practice In the Parliamentary Representation of Women

The Westminster Inheritance

People and Place

Pluses and Minuses of Westminster for Women

For and Against Federalism

Women’s Mobilisation

The Commonwealth of Nations

Part I: Explaining Differences In Parliamentary Representation

Electoral System

Part II: Beyond Numbers

Part III: New Institutions, New Opportunities

Notes

Part I: The Descriptive Representation of Women

2. Women’s Electoral Representation In Australia

The Extension of Women’s Political Rights

Women’s Parliamentary Representation

The Role of the Electoral System

Changing Public Opinion

The Women’s Movement and Political Representation

Political Parties and Gender Quotas

Conclusion

Notes

3. Women’s Representation In the Canadian House of Commons

The Electorate

Do Canadian Voters Discriminate Against Female Candidates?

The Electoral System

Political Parties

The Women’s Movement

Conclusion

Notes

4. Climbing On: Rules, Values and Women’s Representation In the New Zealand Parliament

Becoming Citizens

Opportunities and Constraints Under Two Electoral Systems

The Party Factor: Processes and Attitudes Under Plurality and Proportionality

Women and Representation In New Zealand

Notes

5. Women and Westminster: Descriptive Representation In the United Kingdom

What Is Descriptive Representation and Why Does It Matter?

Development of Descriptive Representation As an Issue In the United Kingdom

How Does Descriptive Representation In Britain Compare With Other Countries?

What Has Influenced Westminster Descriptive Representation?

The Future of Women’s Representation At Westminster

Notes

Part II: The Substantive Representation of Women

6. When Women Support Women…: EMILY’s List and the Substantive Representation of Women In Australia

Origins and Attitudes of EMILY’s List

Persuading Labor to Target Women Voters

Substantive Representation of Women In Parliamentary Debate

Paid Maternity Leave

Domestic Violence/Violence Against Women

Gender-Inclusive Language

Conclusion

Notes

7. When Do Women Count?: Substantive Representation of Women In Canadian Legislatures

‘Women’s Interests’ and Social Perspective

Substantive Representation, Social Perspective and the Critical Mass Hypothesis

Institutionalised Masculinity In Parliamentary Spaces

Conclusion: Substantive Representation As Process and Relationship

Notes

8. The ‘New World’?: The Substantive Representation of Women In New Zealand

The Politics of Presence and Substantive Representation

New Zealand’s Changing Political Institutions

‘Acting for Women’ In the New Zealand Legislature

More Women, More Feminist Advocacy?

New Zealand’s Political Parties and Gender Representation

New Zealand’s Political Structures and Substantive Representation

Influences from Outside the Legislature

Conclusion

Notes

9. The House Turned Upside Down?: The Difference Labour’s Women MPs Made

Critical Mass: A Problematic Basis for the Substantive Representation of Women?

So What Difference Did They Make?

Conclusion

Notes

Part III: New Institutions, New Opportunities?

10. Descriptive and Substantive Representation In New Parliamentary Spaces: The Case of Scotland

Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Timing, Rules, Parties and Agency

Twin Trajectories

Westminster Critiques and ‘New Politics’

Institutional Blueprints: A Blank Slate?

Great Expectations? Descriptive and Substantive Representation In Practice

Substantive Representation of Women

Domestic Abuse

Conclusion: Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est Pareil?

Notes

11. Women and Constitutional Reform: Gender Parity In the National Assembly for Wales

Research Methodology

Conceptual Context

Women’s Influence On the Process of Constitutional Change In Wales

Achieving a ‘Critical Mass’

Women’s Representation and the ‘Style’ of Politics

Descriptive Representation of Women and Deliberative Democracy

The Substantive Representation of Women

Conclusion

Notes

12. Women In Northern Ireland’s Politics: Feminising an ‘Armed Patriarchy’

Women and Political Conflict, 1969–1994

Women and the Good Friday Agreement

Women’s Space In the Devolved Northern Ireland Assembly

Where to for Women In Northern Ireland Politics?

Notes

13. Paradise Lost?: Gender Parity and the Nunavut Experience

A Brief Profile of Nunavut

Theoretical Framework

Methodology

The Proposal

Analysis

Lessons from Nunavut

Conclusion

Notes

14. Conclusion: Gendering Political Representation In the Old and New Worlds of Westminster

Tracking Trends In Descriptive Representation

The Question of Substantive Representation

Future Directions

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