The substantive representation of women parliamentarians of the AKP: the case of maternity leave and part-time work

Sumbas, Ahu; Dinçer, Pelin

doi:10.1080/21565503.2021.1992288

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“…Differences among governmental and oppositional women MPs on more collectively oriented navigation strategies are also apparent in the approaches to women's solidarity in parliament described. Despite their overall consent on experiences of informal gendered barriers as part of women MPs' parliamentary experiences, party affiliation, and related positioning on gender norms play a role in how collective strategies to creating women's solidarity in parliament are articulated differently between government and opposition sides (Britton, 2001;Sumbas and Dinçer, 2022).…”

Section: Collective Strategies On Women's Solidarity In Parliamentmentioning

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Navigating underrepresentation and gendered barriers to women's political power: Narratives and experiences of women parliamentarians in Turkey

Ehrhart

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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As women increasingly participate in political decision-making around the world, the research emphasizes the need to further understand how informal barriers shape women's political participation. At the same time, the persistent stability of hybrid political regimes calls for additional inquiry into the impact of hybrid regimes on gender politics and its actors. Based on the case of Turkey, a hybrid regime, this study explores how women MPs navigate gendered, informal obstacles in parliament and to what extent their navigation strategies reflect the broader implications posed by the hybrid regime context. This exploratory study draws on qualitative, in-depth semi-structured interviews with eight women MPs in the Turkish parliament from government and opposition parties. The findings illustrate that navigating the informal barriers women MPs experience in the Turkish parliament happens both individually and in collective ways. Individually, women MPs choose to navigate the informal barriers of gender norms by either assimilating or contrasting the masculine way of doing politics. Collective navigation strategies of women MPs in the Turkish parliament illustrate their approaches to representing women's interests, seeking women's solidarity across the parliament, and linkages with civil society to empower women, which also reflect the different positionings of government and opposition within the Turkish hybrid regime dynamics. The findings reveal the need to further research the complex, dynamic interplay of how informal practices and hybrid regime tactics target gender politics and its actors, while also giving more attention to women's agency in tackling and countering obstacles to their political power within and beyond political institutions.

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Section: Collective Strategies On Women's Solidarity In Parliamentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating underrepresentation and gendered barriers to women's political power: Narratives and experiences of women parliamentarians in Turkey

Ehrhart

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The substantive representation of women parliamentarians of the AKP: the case of maternity leave and part-time work

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Navigating underrepresentation and gendered barriers to women's political power: Narratives and experiences of women parliamentarians in Turkey

Navigating underrepresentation and gendered barriers to women's political power: Narratives and experiences of women parliamentarians in Turkey

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