Presidentas Rise: Consequences for Women in Cabinets?

Reyes-Housholder, Catherine

doi:10.1111/j.1548-2456.2016.00316.x

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“…They are also more likely to initiate bills related to women's rights, children, and families (Jones 1997;Schwindt-Bayer 2010;Taylor-Robinson and Heath 2003) and social issues, including education, healthcare, and welfare (Swers 2014;Schwindt-Bayer 2010). Women chief executives are more likely to appoint women to top bureaucratic positions, such as cabinet ministers at the national level (Reyes-Housholder 2016) and public managers at the local level (Funk, Silva and Escobar-Lemmon Forthcoming). A number of additional studies find that increasing women's representation results in the adoption of policy programs that favor women's substantive interests.…”

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Representative Budgeting: Women Mayors and the Composition of Spending in Local Governments

Funk

Philips

2018

Political Research Quarterly

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One potential consequence of increasing women's numeric representation is that women elected officials will behave differently than their men counterparts and improve women's substantive representation. This study examines whether electing women to local offices changes how local government expenditures are allocated in ways that benefit women. Using compositional expenditure data from over 5,400 Brazilian municipalities over eight years, we find significant differences in the ways men and women mayors allocate government expenditures. Our findings indicate that women mayors spend more on traditionally feminine issues, and less on traditionally masculine issues, relative to men mayors. In regards to specific policy areas, we find that women spend more on women's issues, including education, healthcare, and social assistance, and less on masculine issues, including transportation and urban development, relative to men mayors. We further find that women's legislative representation significantly influences the allocation of expenditures as a larger percentage of women councilors increases spending on traditionally feminine issues, as well as education, healthcare, and social assistance, relative to other policy issues. These findings indicate that women local elected officials improve women's substantive representation by allocating a larger percentage of expenditures to issues that have historically and continue to concern women in Brazil.Word Count: Approx. 9570 (manuscript), 199 (abstract)

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Representative Budgeting: Women Mayors and the Composition of Spending in Local Governments

Funk

Philips

2018

Political Research Quarterly

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“…Mounting research, however, suggests female presidents wield that power differently than their male counterparts. Not only are they more likely to mobilize their core constituents on the basis of gender identity and network with elite feminists (Reyes-Housholder forthcoming), to advance pro-women policies and gender equality (Waylen 2016), and to nominate more women to cabinet posts (Reyes-Housholder 2016), they are also less likely to govern by executive decree – especially when they are highly popular (Shair-Rosenfield and Stoyan forthcoming). The centrality of public approval to presidential politics, coupled with distinct governing styles of male and female presidents, make the following question a research imperative: does the sex of the president influence public evaluations of him or her?…”

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“…Gender and politics research underscores how gender stereotypes fuel the perception that female political leaders lack the stereotypical masculine attributes (such as toughness, decisiveness) associated with leadership (Alexander and Andersen 1993; Huddy and Terkildsen 1993; Lawless 2004; Leeper 1991; Schneider and Bos 2014). Despite an explosion of research on female presidents (Martin and Borrelli 2016; Murray 2010; Reyes-Housholder 2016; forthcoming; Schwindt-Bayer 2018; Schwindt-Bayer and Reyes-Housholder 2017; Shair-Rosenfield and Stoyan forthcoming), how gender stereotypes influence their public standing remains unclear. Hence our study makes important theoretical and empirical contributions.…”

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Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance

Carlin¹,

Carreras²,

Love³

2019

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Public approval is a crucial source of executive power in presidential systems. Does the public support female and male presidents similarly? Combining insights from gender and politics research with psychological evidence, this study theorizes sex-based differentials in popularity based on more general expectations linking gender stereotypes to diverging performance evaluations. Using quarterly analyses of eighteen Latin American democracies, South Korea and the Philippines, the analyses compare the levels, dynamics, and policy performance of macro-approval for male and female presidents. As expected, female presidents are less popular, experience exaggerated approval dynamics and their approval is more responsive to security and corruption (though not economic) outcomes. These findings have clear implications for our understandings of mass politics, political accountability and presidentialism.

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“…En los años precedentes al 2018, la participación y representación política de las mujeres habían avanzado a grandes pasos. La primera presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet (2006-20102014 nombró gabinetes (cuasi) paritarios y promovió políticas promujer como nunca antes (Reyes-Housholder 2016. Durante su último gobierno el Servicio Nacional de la Mujer (Sernam) se convirtió en el Ministerio de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género, se aprobó la ley de Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo en tres causales y se implementaron cuotas de género para candidaturas legislativas (Reyes-Housholder 2018;Le Foulon and Suárez-Cao 2019).…”

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Chile 2018: desafíos al poder de género desde la calle hasta La Moneda

Reyes-Housholder

Roque

2019

Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago)

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Poniendo el foco en el feminismo, este artículo describe la situación política, social y económica de Chile durante el año 2018. Se argumenta que durante el año en estudio se cuestionó, en diversos espacios de la sociedad chilena, la forma en que se distribuye el poder entre hombres y mujeres. Se revisa también la tercera ola de protestas feminista, caracterizada por el accionar de mujeres universitarias a lo largo de todo el país, cuyas manifestaciones visibilizaron la discriminación y el trato desigual que viven las mujeres y la diversidad sexual, emplazando a los poderes Legislativo y Ejecutivo a tomar medidas para mejorar las condiciones de grupos históricamente marginados. Se concluye que durante el año 2018 se desafió el poder político y social, cuestionando las brechas de género persistentes en la sociedad chilena. Asimismo, se plantea que es fundamental analizar los orígenes y consecuencias del "año del feminismo" en Chile, pues las demandas feministas enriquecen los debates actuales sobre la calidad de la democracia.

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Presidentas Rise: Consequences for Women in Cabinets?

Cited by 26 publications

References 46 publications

Representative Budgeting: Women Mayors and the Composition of Spending in Local Governments

Representative Budgeting: Women Mayors and the Composition of Spending in Local Governments

Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance

Chile 2018: desafíos al poder de género desde la calle hasta La Moneda

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