Women Executives

Jalalzai, Farida

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“…Since no woman has yet been elected President of the United States, this case can tell us little about how gender stereotypes affect mass support for the president. The rise of women as political executives worldwide and what drives this trend are well documented (see reviews in Htun and Piscopo 2014; Jalalzai 2013; Jalalzai and Krook 2010). In turn, this has prompted much comparative research into women’s representation, the individual-level predictors of support for women leaders, and whether women and men display different patterns of political behavior under women leaders (Carreras 2017; Desposato and Norrander 2009; Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson 2014; Inglehart and Norris 2003; Morgan 2015; Morgan and Buice 2013).…”

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“…Critics can, for example, overshadow the significance and novelty of electing a country’s first woman president by crediting her triumph to exceptional circumstances that create space for outsiders (Jalalzai 2013; Jalalzai 2016; Skard 2015; Schwindt-Bayer 2010) – such as a democratic transition, a post-conflict situation, severe political mistrust. Other counter-narratives link women’s rise to power to privileged connections with a male political leader, that is, wives/widows, daughters and protégées (see Hinojosa 2012, chapter 7).…”

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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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Section: Psychic Handicaps: Exceptions Tokens Double Standards and mentioning

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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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“…Third, women chief executives tend to govern smaller countries, both in terms of geographic and population sizes [ 8 ]. While Jacinda Ardern’s leadership has engendered massive public support domestically and abroad for Covid-19 policies related to lockdowns and quarantining, it is comparatively easier to close the borders of a remote island nation than in countries that share multiple, lengthy borders and major international transportation hubs.…”

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“…This narrative reflects the political gender double bind, and assigns women leaders traits such as good listening skills, the tendency to seek input and counsel for major decisions, the ability to provide a big-picture overview of a situation, and proficiency in risk management [ 7 , 8 ]. These traits would arguably make anyone better at managing crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, and these traits are more commonly proscribed to women than in men [ 1 ].…”

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Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities

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In this paper we explore whether countries led by women have fared better during the COVID-19 pandemic than those led by men. Media and public health officials have lauded the perceived gender-related influence on policies and strategies for reducing the deleterious effects of the pandemic. We examine this proposition by analyzing COVID-19-related deaths globally across countries led by men and women. While we find some limited support for lower reported fatality rates in countries led by women, they are not statistically significant. Country cultural values offer more substantive explanation for COVID-19 outcomes. We offer several potential explanations for the pervasive perception that countries led by women have fared better during the pandemic, including data selection bias and Western media bias that amplified the successes of women leaders in OECD countries.

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“…She finds that while many men who enter Latin American politics have family connections to other men, women are presumed to have made it into politics because of their personal relationships with other men. Even in the absence of such a family relationship, the presumption is that a ‘sexual relationship can explain women’s success’ (Hinojosa 2012: 119; see also Camp 1979; Jalalzai 2013).…”

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Comparing Candidate Selection: A Feminist Institutionalist Approach

Bjarnegård¹,

Kenny²

2016

Gov. & oppos.

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This contribution evaluates the theoretical and methodological challenges of researching the gendered dynamics of candidate selection in comparative perspective. It argues that comparative studies should take into account not only the gendered nature of political parties and their wider institutional context, but must also investigate the informal aspects of the selection process and their gendered consequences. The article explores these dynamics by revisiting original in-depth research on the candidate selection process in two different settings -Thailand and Scotland. Using a common analytical framework, the article reflects on this work and points to two key aspects of the interaction between formal and informal rules -the gendered consequences of informal party recruitment and of local influence over candidate selection -which are critically important for understanding the continuity of male political dominance and female under-representation. The article concludes by outlining a research agenda for comparative work on gender, institutions and candidate selection and pointing to future directions for work in this area.Keywords: candidate selection, gender, feminist institutionalism, political parties, informal institutions Investigating the gendered and institutional dimensions of the opportunity structures within political parties is essential in order to explain women's chronic minority status in politics as well as the persistence of male dominance. The small but growing body of work on gender, political parties and candidate selection has contributed many important insights about the

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Women Executives

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

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

Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities

Comparing Candidate Selection: A Feminist Institutionalist Approach

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