Talking about my generation and class? Unpacking the descriptive representation of women in Asian parliaments

Joshi, Devin K.; Och, Malliga

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.06.004

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“…Although the impact of age or ageism is at times included as a control in empirical analysis, it is a factor that has seldom been analyzed thoroughly, neither in the general literature on political representation, nor in the literature concerning women's political representation. The small number of studies that have explored the descriptive representation of being young have found that young adults are descriptively underrepresented in the European Parliament (Stockemer and Sundström 2018) and in Asian parliaments (Joshi 2013(Joshi , 2015Joshi and Och 2014). Joshi (2015), who investigates the descriptive representation of "excluded majorities" and their intersection with each other in Asian parliaments, has identified multiple burdens that have been placed upon young women with a workingclass background in that they simultaneously belong to three excluded majorities regarding age, class, and gender.…”

Section: Gender In the Parliamentmentioning

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Equal playing field? On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson

Josefsson

2019

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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Women and young constitute two underrepresented groups in most legislatures worldwide. The aim of this paper is to theorize and empirically analyze how the hitherto overlooked intersection between gender and young age condition legislators' opportunities to carry out their representative tasks on equal grounds. Using original survey data from the Swedish Parliament (response rate 82%, n = 287) in combination with 40 in-depth interviews with young male and female MPs, we ask whether being young in parliament have different implications for men and women legislators. We find that young women experience higher demands and anxiety, and are more subject to negative treatment compared to other groups. Young men, on the other hand, stand out as the least exposed group. Together our results demonstrate that a young age reinforces negative gendered patterns for women in parliament, while age appears irrelevant or even, at times, a beneficial factor for young men. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Gender In the Parliamentmentioning

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Equal playing field? On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson

Josefsson

2019

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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“…To illustrate our index, we apply it to Asia, home to the majority of the world's women. Our work incorporates insights and data from studies on gender and leadership of Asian political executives and parliaments (e.g., Derichs and Thompson 2013; Joshi and Och 2014; True et al 2012) while additionally incorporating cabinet portfolios, parliamentary committees, and high court judges, which thus far have generally been absent from comparative studies of women in Asian politics. Table 1 displays the WPLI modified geometric mean and minimum component scores (between 0.00 and 1.00) for 21 territories in 2017.…”

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Conceptualizing and Measuring Women's Political Leadership: From Presence to Balance

Joshi

Goehrung

2018

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Cross-national studies of women's political leadership (WPL) usually focus on female prime ministers and presidents or numbers of women in parliament. While illuminating, these studies fail to provide a comprehensive assessment of WPL in a particular place and time. Addressing this gap in the literature, we assert that WPL is inherently contingent upon the theoretical concepts of “structural power” and “male dominance,” encompassing multiple formal apex political decision-making institutions. In accordance with this perspective, we have constructed a novel women's political leadership index based on collective leadership across judicial (high court judges), executive (cabinet ministers), and legislative (parliamentary committee chairs) branches of governments to capture both thepresenceof women among political leaders and theirbalanceacross institutions. Applying our index to 21 diverse territories in Asia, we demonstrate the utility of our approach through a series of country case studies illustrating four prominent patterns of WPL: exclusion, illusion, imbalance, and balance. We conclude by discussing the potential benefits of globally expanding the scope of the index.

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“…Beer and Camp, 2016; Josefsson, 2014). Yet, cross-national comparisons also find FMPs are often younger and have different occupational profiles than male members of parliament (MMPs) (Joshi and Och, 2014).…”

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Long-term impacts of parliamentary gender quotas in a single-party system: Symbolic co-option or delayed integration?

Joshi

Thimothy

2018

International Political Science Review

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In recent years scholars have shifted their attention from the causes behind parliamentary gender quotas to their consequences for women’s descriptive, substantive, and symbolic representation. We contribute to this literature by focusing on long-term effects of gender quotas in the context of an authoritarian one-party system. Here we contest dominant theoretical explanations which posit that gender quotas in authoritarian states primarily serve the goals of symbolic co-option and window-dressing. Rather, we argue that while authoritarian adaptation may motivate the introduction of gender quotas, these quotas may result over time in what we call a delayed integration process featuring a gradual rise of women into arenas of power alongside increasing professionalization and capabilities of women within parliament. This argument is tested and supported via a 72-year longitudinal analysis of over 6000 female and male representatives of the Vietnamese National Assembly, a single-party parliament with long-standing gender quotas.

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Talking about my generation and class? Unpacking the descriptive representation of women in Asian parliaments

Cited by 20 publications

References 57 publications

Equal playing field? On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament

Equal playing field? On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament

Conceptualizing and Measuring Women's Political Leadership: From Presence to Balance

Long-term impacts of parliamentary gender quotas in a single-party system: Symbolic co-option or delayed integration?

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