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Title: Professor Sarah Childs


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Professor Sarah Childs
  • Gender and Politics Theory and Research

2
Womens Political Presence Anne Phillips (1995)
  1. Justice arguments
  2. Symbolic representation
  3. Representation of womens interests
  4. Introduction of new values and concerns

3
Women in Westminster,1992-2010
  • By Sex
  • By party

4
Determinants of Womens Descriptive Representation
  • Socio-economic womens participation in the
    public sphere and pipe-line professions
    social-democratic state
  • Cultural measures of egalitarianism secularism
    date of womens enfranchisement
  • Political proportional representation (PR)
    positive discrimination/quotas womens presence
    in party hierarchies left wing parties
    centralized party selection processes salience
    of womens vote

5
Supply and Demand
  • Supply
  • outcome reflects supply of applicants
  • Fewer resources time, money, ambition,
    confidence, experience
  • Demand
  • selectors choose candidates depending on their
    perceptions of the applicants abilities,
    qualifications and experience
  • Direct discrimination
  • Indirect discrimination what constitutes good
    MP
  • Imputed perception that voters may discriminate

6
Descriptive and Substantive Representation
  • A substantial amount of circumstantial evidence
    nevertheless connects womens presence to
    policies that address womens concerns
    (Lovenduski 2005)

7
Re-gendering politics by regulating political
parties
  • Political parties should be more fully regulated
    in a feminist fashion to
  • include women and
  • be committed to gender equality in politics
  • This can be achieved via
  • Party registration
  • Party funding
  • Party organization

8
appendices
9
Speakers Conference
  • To consider and make recommendations for
    rectifying the disparity between the
    representation of women, ethnic minorities and
    disabled people in the House of Commons and their
    representation in the UK population at large and
    may agree to consider other associated matters
    (in practice, sexuality).

10
Recommendation 25
  • all political parties registered under part 2 of
    the PPERA Act 2000 should be required to publish
    details of their candidate selections online
    every six months,
  • sex ethnicity whether the candidate is willing
    to identify as a disabled person.
  • The reports might also include the following
    information
  • nature of the impairment
  • sexual orientation
  • Age
  • Occupation
  • educational attainment

11
Speakers Conference Recommendation 24
  • Parliament should give serious consideration to
    the introduction of prescriptive quotas, ensuring
    that all political parties adopt some form of
    equality guarantee in time for the following
    general election, should the parties fail to
    make significant progress in 2010 (emphasis
    added).

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Guiding Principles
  1. Prescription (requirements) vs permissive
    measures (preferences and targets)
  2. Goodness of fit target, type, and relative
    importance of individual regulations
  3. Goodness of fit regulations and associated
    incentive or penalty.
  4. Financial implications

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Making a Difference and Acting for women
  • You cant say we have changed that, but you can
    say, weve worked six weeks on that andchange
    has come about.
  • So is it women? I think so. Dont you think so?

14
Acting for Women
  • House of Commons
  • Parliamentary questions
  • Signing of EDMs
  • Sex Discrimination (EC) Act
  • Reduction of VAT on Sanitary Products

15
Global rankings (www.ipu.org)
  • 1st Rwanda 56
  • 4th Sweden 45
  • 7th Finland 43
  • 8th South Africa 42
  • 12th Mozambique 40
  • 17th Belgium 38
  • 20th Spain 36
  • 37st France 27
  • 58th UK 22
  • 80th USA 17
  • 89th Ireland 15
  • 119th Brazil 9

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Women in National Parliaments, 1997 and 2010
1997 2010 increase
Nordic 35.9 42.1 6
Europe incl. Nordic 14.3 22.0 8
Americas 13.5 22.5 8
Asia 9.7 18.6 9
Europe exc. Nordic 12.3 20.1 8
Sub-Saharan Africa 10.8 18.3 7
Pacific 12.8 13.2 0
Arab States 3.7 9.2 5
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