Women, Power, and Political Representation

Introduction
Roosmarijn de Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter John Loewen

Part One: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics

1. Women’s representation in Canadian federal cabinets 1980-2019
Roosmarijn de Geus and Peter John Loewen

2. Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections?
Semra Sevi, André Blais and Vincent Arel-Bundock 

3. News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political Leaders 
Linda Trimble 

4. Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous women’s political participation in Canada
Robyn Bourgeois

Part Two: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics

5. Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018 Election 
Julie Dolan, Paru Shah and Semilla Stripp 

6. Black Women’s Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics (Dis)Respectability Politics 
Nadia E. Brown

7. Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine Congress
Tiffany D. Barnes and Victoria Beall

8. Women as Party Leaders 
Diana Z. O’Brien 

9. A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada 
Tracey Raney and Cheryl Collier 

Part Three: Responses to Women’s Electoral Underrepresentation

10. Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics
Magda Hinojosa, Miki Kittilson and Alexandra M. Williams 

11. Quotas, Reserved Seats and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in Asia
Netina Tan

12. Changing Minds. Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity.
Chantal Maillé

13. Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation: Lessons for Canada
Susan Franceschet

Part Four: New Research Directions 

14. Making the Case for Women’s Representation: What, Who, and Why
Kelly Dittmar

15. Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact Critical Actors in the Policy Making Process 
Malliga Och

16. Too feminine to be a leader? Systematic implicit biases against women politicians 
Shan-Jan Sarah Liu

17. Women in Politics: Beyond the heterosexual fantasy
Manon Tremblay, PhD

18. New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women’s Contemporary Public Engagement 
Sylvia Bashevkin