Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada

In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 1029-1030

Abstract

Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada, Linda Trimble and
Jane Arscott, Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003. pp. xvi, 210Numbers matter. This is Trimble and Arscott's fundamental
message. The ratio of women in elected and appointed political posts to
their proportion in the population at large is a measure of fairness in
political representation that has obvious implications for women's
impact on political processes and policy outcomes. Although Canadian in
perspective, the authors draw international comparisons where appropriate
and find Canada rather lacking. Perennial under-representation, despite
marked improvements over the past three decades, is an evident problem and
an issue worthy of investigation.