Women legislators in legislative policymaking in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 548-560
Author(s):  
Chiedo Nwankwor ◽  
Adedeji Adebayo
Keyword(s):  
Women Legislators

Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Lobbyists

2021 ◽  
pp. 106591292110093
Author(s):  
James M. Strickland ◽  
Katelyn E. Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Women And Politics ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Women Legislators ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
American States

Despite a growing body of literature examining the consequences of women’s inclusion among lobbyists, our understanding of the factors that lead to women’s initial emergence in the profession is limited. In this study, we propose that gender diversity among legislative targets incentivizes organized interests to hire women lobbyists, and thus helps to explain when and how women emerge as lobbyists. Using a comprehensive data set of registered lobbyist–client pairings from all American states in 1989 and 2011, we find that legislative diversity influences not only the number of lobby contracts held by women but also the number of former women legislators who become revolving-door lobbyists. This second finding further supports the argument that interests capitalize on the personal characteristics of lobbyists, specifically by hiring women to work in more diverse legislatures. Our findings have implications for women and politics, lobbying, and voice and political equality in the United States.

scholarly journals Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
AMANDA CLAYTON ◽  
PÄR ZETTERBERG
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Substantive Representation ◽  
Party Discipline ◽  
Women Legislators ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Legislative Effectiveness ◽  
Gendered Expectations

Are men and women legislators equally loyal to their parties? We theorize that parties select candidates based on gendered criteria, leading to the (s)election of more disciplined women. Moreover, we argue that gendered expectations about proper behavior limit women legislators’ ability to act independently from their parties. Using surveys from over 800 parliamentarians across 17 African legislatures, we find that women report significantly higher levels of party discipline than do their men copartisans. From this survey data and new legislative speech data, we also find support for our proposed causal mechanisms. Further, we find that among women parliamentarians, party discipline is negatively correlated with the prioritization of womens rights. A qualitative case study of the Namibian Parliament illustrates our findings. We discuss the implications of our results for women’s legislative effectiveness, for the substantive representation of women’s interests in policy making, and for the continued democratization of emerging party systems.

Do Women Legislators Have a Positive Effect on the Supportiveness of States Toward Older Citizens?

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Giles-Sims ◽  
Joanne Connor Green ◽  
Charles Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Women Legislators ◽  
Older Citizens ◽  
Positive Effect

scholarly journals Women legislators and economic performance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thushyanthan Baskaran ◽  
Sonia Bhalotra ◽  
Brian Min ◽  
Yogesh Uppal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Women Legislators

Gender, Politics, Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Carole Spary
Keyword(s):  
Political Representation ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Women Legislators ◽  
National Parliament ◽  
Female Speaker ◽  
Indian Politics

The chapter introduces the reader to selected frames that are valuable in work on gender and political representation: embodiment, authenticity, and performative labor of (especially symbolic) representation. The chapter illustrates the dominant scripts of political representation and appeals to situated knowledge during claim-making in the Indian national parliament; the policing of gendered and religious behavioral scripts for authentic representation of minority women in Indian politics; salient intersections of caste, gender, and embodiment in the performance of symbolic representation in the election of India’s first female Speaker in Parliament; and more localized scripts of performing gender in party political spaces. It discusses the performances of women legislators in institutional and noninstitutional spaces with the aim of illustrating the intellectual and practical merits of applying a performance-based approach to analyzing gender and politics.

Critical Mass of Women Legislators and Oversight for National ICT Policy of Malawi

2018 ◽  
pp. 950-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Makoza
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women Legislators ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Media ◽  
Women In Parliament ◽  
Ict Policy

This article analyses how the representation of women legislators may affect the oversight of national ICT policy. The article uses Critical Mass Theory (CMT) to explain the composition of the Media and Communications Committee (MCC) of parliament. The case of Malawi is analysed, which represented a low-income economy in Africa. The article uses electoral reports and legislative documents. The results show that women legislators in the MCC achieved a critical mass despite the decrease in the representation of women in parliament. The women legislators have the opportunity to support gender issues related to ICT legislations and national ICT policy oversight. However, the functions of MCC related to national ICT policy oversight were not aligned with the gender equity strategies. This may affect the priority of gender issues in the policy oversight. The article contributes towards literature on national ICT policy oversight in the context of developing countries.

Mentoring the Next Generation of Women Candidates: A Field Experiment of State Legislators

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarina Rhinehart
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women Legislators ◽  
Specific Advice ◽  
Gender Specific

This experiment sent state legislators an email from an individual seeking advice on running for office, varying the gender and party of the sender. This project explores two inquiries—who the legislators choose to respond to and how the legislators’ own gender and partisan identities shape that decision. I theorize that women in politics is a salient issue for legislators; therefore, they will be more willing to advise politically ambitious women. Overall, I find that legislators are more willing to offer help when the aspirant is a woman and of the same party. When primed to further consider women in politics, legislators are more likely to offer gender-specific advice. Democrats rather than women legislators drive this heightened responsiveness to the woman aspirant. These findings highlight what role public officials can play in closing the candidate gender gap, and how legislators’ multiple identities intersect and frame their decisions to aid political aspirants.

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