Women, Power, and Political Representation: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One : Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics -- 1 Women's Representation in Canadian Federal Cabinets, 1980–2019 -- 2 Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections? -- 3 News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political Leaders -- 4 Adversarial Politics: Understanding the Colonial Context of Indigenous Women's Political Participation in Canada -- Part Two : Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics -- 5 Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018 Election -- 6 Black Women's Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics and (Dis)Respectability Politics -- 7 Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine Congress -- 8 Women as Party Leaders -- 9 A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada -- Part Three : Responses to Women's Electoral Under-Representation -- 10 Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women's Under-Representation in Politics -- 11 Effects of Quotas, Reserved Seats, and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in Asia -- 12 Changing Minds: Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity -- 13 Gender Quotas and Women's Political Representation: Lessons for Canada -- Part Four : New Research Directions -- 14 Making the Case for Women's Representation: What, Who, and Why -- 15 Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact -- 16 Too Feminine to Be a Leader? Systematic Implicit Biases against Women Politicians -- 17 Women in Politics: Beyond the Heterosexual Fantasy -- 18 New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women's Contemporary Public Engagement -- References -- Contributors