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Introduction : politics of inclusion in Latin America -- Women, Afrodescendants, and Indigenous peoples in elected office -- Gender quotas : why and how? -- Indigenous reservations and gender parity in Bolivia -- The rise and fall of political inclusion in Colombia -- Brazil : combatting exclusion through quotas in higher education -- After quotas : women's presence and legislative behavior in Argentina

Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed, but did not create, the caregiving crisis in the United States: for most people, it was already a major ordeal to provide reproductive labor. The caregiving crisis was less visible before the pandemic because it was suffered unequally, in part due to the different positions of American women. Some women paid other women to do care work, women received differing sets of benefits from federal and state governments, and some women got far more support from their employers than did others. Pandemic-induced shocks, including the closure of K–12 schools and childcare centers, and reduced access to domestic workers and elder care workers, seemed to have triggered a closer alignment of perspectives and interests among diverse women. Although women's demands for support seem to have pushed the Biden administration to propose more expansive family policies, stereotypes and norms that marginalize care work and care workers within families and across the economy also need to change to achieve equality for women.

ABSTRACTOrganizations—from academic and professional associations to private corporations and police forces—face challenges promoting diversity and inclusion among their workers and affiliates. Instead of training and regulations, recent research recommends mechanisms that engage managers and leaders in activities that involve behavioral changes. This article describes how we put the managerial engagement approach into practice by organizing a "Diversity and Inclusion Hackathon" at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. With 11 teams focused on a range of topics, the hackathon attracted more than 200 people and produced multiple outputs. It engaged scholars from a range of backgrounds, social identities, institutions, ranks, and beliefs in the generation of new norms, programmatic ideas, and plans for the profession. Although we cannot infer causality, analysis of the APSA Annual Meeting evaluation survey reveals that hackathon participants are significantly more likely to express positive perceptions of the conference.

Part of a symposium, "The Concept of Gender: Research Implications for Political Science." Gender is defined as a social position & as an attribute of social structures, rather than as an attribute of individuals. The theories of Moi (1999) & Young (2002) are drawn upon to develop a theory conceptualizing gender as a feature of social structures & institutions. This article examines some of the ways in which gender exists as a social position, with a particular focus upon gender & the state. It is argued that gender is not the study of individual men or women, but an analysis of the effects of large-scale social structures. Three examples are given of ways in which the state positions people in unequal hierarchical relations of power in daily life. They are, as follows: the sexual division of labor; normative heterosexuality; & war & the military. It is concluded that these institutions, not individual attributes, engender our lives. References. R. Prince