1981
DOI: 10.2307/447897
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Political Participation of Women in Latin America

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“…However, the effects of employment might be less transformative for women in Latin America, where women are less likely to be in the workforce and their work experiences are less likely to be politicizing. 20 The types of employment available to Latin American women lead us to expect workforce participation to have a lesser effect on women's than men's political involvement in these countries.…”
Section: Employment Statusmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, the effects of employment might be less transformative for women in Latin America, where women are less likely to be in the workforce and their work experiences are less likely to be politicizing. 20 The types of employment available to Latin American women lead us to expect workforce participation to have a lesser effect on women's than men's political involvement in these countries.…”
Section: Employment Statusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Women often played a significant role in protests against authoritarian regimes in these countries. 39 Under authoritarian regimes, women may have been more able than men to engage in protest activities because predominant gender-role attitudes result in women's protest activities being seen as less political, and therefore less in need of repression. 40 Women also may be disadvantaged by a return to democracy and mass party politics.…”
Section: Democratic Governance and Political Freedommentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If women are socialized to believe that politics is a male domain in which they should play a limited role, active participation may generate large psychic costs. Empirical evidence does show that adult gender roles do affect political participation, both in the United States and elsewhere (Anderson 1975;Aviel 1981).…”
Section: Theories Of Differential Participationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Latin America, the nature of the political regime is the most important in explaining female political participation: military regimes include fewer females (Aviel 1981).…”
Section: Theories Of Differential Participationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Verba, Nie and Kim in studying the political participation of seven nations, found that in each nation the political involvement of individuals with higher occupational status was greater than the political involvement of those with lower 62 occupational status. In addition other studies involving women exclusively show similar results; in nations such as the USA, Britain, Netherlands, Italy, and Latin America those women with higher occupational status are more politically involved (Verba, Nie and Kim, 1978;Baxter and Lansing, 1983;Randall, 1981;Ferrari-Occhionero, 1978;Aviel, 1981).…”
Section: The Influence Of Occupationmentioning
confidence: 68%