Untangling the gender gap: nomination and representativeness in Turkish local elections

Yıldırım, Kerem; Kocapınar, Gülnur

doi:10.1080/14683849.2018.1553621

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“…Evidence from across the globe suggests that women in politics face important gender-specific challenges (Ballington 2004; Bernauer, Giger, and Rosset 2015; Bhandare and Katarki 2014; Fox and Lawless 2010; Iwanaga 2008; Kostadinova 2007; Norris and Lovenduski 1995; Schmidt 2009; Spary 2014; Valdini 2012; Yildirim and Kocapınar 2019). One line of research posits that the gender gap in political careers emerges well before elections take place, at the stage of recruitment (Butler and Preece 2016; Crowder-Meyer 2013; Fox and Lawless 2010; Kanthak and Woon 2015; Lawless and Fox 2010; Preece, Stoddard, and Fisher 2016).…”

Section: Status Incongruity and Backlash Against Women In Politicsmentioning

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Yıldırım

Kocapınar

Ecevit

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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The literature on nomination procedures and intra-party politics shows that engagement in personalized parliamentary activities helps legislators get re-elected and promoted in the party list. However, as a considerable body of scholarly work suggests, women in leadership positions who are perceived to disconfirm the well-known gender stereotypes by being “too assertive” and “agentic” in the workplace may suffer from what social psychologists call the “backlash effect” (i.e., facing economic and social sanctions). Integrating insights from the literatures on perceptions of female leadership and intra-party politics, we reveal the differential effect of legislative speechmaking on the career prospects of male and female members of parliament (MPs). Specifically, using an original dataset of over thirty-five thousand parliamentary speeches and the biographies of 2,140 MPs who served in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 1995 and 2011, we show that the well-documented positive effect of engagement in parliamentary activities on career prospects holds for male MPs, but not for their female counterparts. In fact, we found that female MPs who were active on the legislative floor were significantly less likely to get renominated and promoted in the party rank. These results imply that the challenges facing women in leadership positions go beyond electoral competition.

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Section: Status Incongruity and Backlash Against Women In Politicsmentioning

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Yıldırım

Kocapınar

Ecevit

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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“…Turkey has signed many international agreements and conventions that aim to promote gender equality and eliminate gender-based discrimination, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). 14 However, as the Gender Gap Report cited above confirms, Turkey has failed in terms of establishing gender equality and minimising, if not eliminating, gender-based discrimination in socio-political life (see, for instance, Yildirim & Kocapinar 2019;. As a result, many domestic and international women's organisations have criticised Turkey's poor record of implementing those formal agreements and treaties.…”

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Who Is Patriarchal? The Correlates of Patriarchy in Turkey

Ozdemir-Sarigil¹,

Sarıgil²

2021

South European Society and Politics

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This study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of patriarchal attitudes and orientations in Turkey, a Muslimmajority country. The following questions direct the current study: What factors account for patriarchal orientations at the mass level? How do social, political, and economic differences relate to individuals' patriarchal attitudes and orientations? The answers are provided by original data derived from a nationwide survey, Türkiye'de Enformel Kurumlar Anketi (TEKA 2019) [Informal Institutions in Turkey Survey] (Sarigil 2019). Multivariate analyses suggest that religiosity, Sunni sectarian identity, Kurdish ethnic identity, rightoriented ideological orientations, and low socio-economic status are likely to empower patriarchal tendencies. One major implication of the findings is that modernisation processes (e.g. socio-economic development and secularisation) are likely to undermine patriarchal orientations in Muslimmajority countries as well.

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Gendered local politics: the barriers to women’s representation in Turkey

Sumbas

2019

Democratization

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Untangling the gender gap: nomination and representativeness in Turkish local elections

Cited by 5 publications

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Who Is Patriarchal? The Correlates of Patriarchy in Turkey

Gendered local politics: the barriers to women’s representation in Turkey

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